CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

[misterprofessionality]

some facts for those interested: it's a kind of tree called a Live Oak. there are a great many of these growing all over the charleston area, and they're actually protected by law. you need a permit to prune them. some of them are very old and spectacular, but this one is the oldest. the wood from a live oak is outrageously hard, compared to your average tree. it's often compared to iron in terms of its density, and each one of those crazy limbs you see weighs 10s of thousands of pounds. the tree is so large, and so old, and the limbs so big around, that if you look you can see entire ecosystems growing on the topside of the limbs. little baby forests all on their own. it's a bit like the legend of Yggdrasil, the world tree.