Field guide No. 1599

A lone stump sits in the middle of a clear-cut, and its growth rings spread out across the ground in rings of bare earth and grass. The tree is gone, its years are everywhere.

Outside the rings

Counted to the treeline

A lone stump sits in the middle of a clear-cut, and its growth rings spread out across the ground in rings of bare earth and grass. The tree is gone, its years are everywhere.

Field noteStump’s growth rings ripple out across the clear-cut, a tree counted in acres.

Specimen
No. 1599
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Scale
Where it doesn’t exist
A clear-cut hillside with snow in the hollows.
Nearest existing relative
A tree stump.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking scale