Czech Yamadori

First yamadori of 2018 By far the largest one I have ever collected.  Single handed.  I have been circling  this tree for a good number of years.   Years of rejections, hopes and doubts: Too big.... Well, ok it is a little bit overgrown  but. .. No chance.... C'mon man! Forget it! A caveman sledge to get the beast home.   I guess there is more than 50 kg of wood and soil.  A carton of Glenmorangie 0,7 l as a measure.   I thought a bottle of beer is not a good match for this kind of tree:) Height: 120 cm.   Size of the box  75*65*30 cm. The tree will leave me in next few hours and will be heading for his new home... Unless I will change my mind?!

Another day in a woodland... I  have spent few hours in the nearby woodland today.   While the single target for the day was quite  clear: go out and find some decent blackthorn(s), I could not resist to make few photographs... Beeches are ready for the winter.  Nice thick bedding to cover their roots. I have never seen such buttress roots on a native tree.  Much more typical for a rainforest then for a mixed forest in our country  Wood ear   Auricularia auricula-judae - ready, well nearly, for the harvest:) Finally. after spending a good amount of time mostly on my knees pushing my way through the blackthorn undergrowth  I have found this massive trunk.    As mentioned somewhere in one of my earlier post.   To find a sloe with a good potential is quite difficult in my area.  Difficult but possible:) To bring it home and keep it alive - well, that's another story......