There are more photos but you get the gist.
Some of you will remember some wonderful early summer walks up this road with Red before the log lorries arrived in force. If anyone can explain who or what benefits from this carnage I'll bake you a cake. I haven't counted these tree rings but similar hawthorns at the same altitude near here were a minimum of 80 years old so that's a long time for the micro-fauna to hold their collective breath.