Willow Stump
If you have a garden built around you, and you are big, it only seems polite to have a close-up photograph. That is, before the ravages of time rot you away and you are sawn off at ground level by the chain-saw... This is the willow tree stump, in all its winter glory, back in its heyday. Someone (me) had been experimenting with some wood, and Fluff-Fluff the cat decided this was a good spot for a rest.
Winter Cat in the Willow Stump
This photograph below was taken ages ago in the year 2004, in summer, before Non-Gardening Partner was instructed to tidy up the stump.
Stumpy Willow
Then I had the silly idea that a viewing platform could be built around the stump. It would not be for sleeping, but for sitting, drinking coffee, and reading. The platform would stick out a tiny way over the flowing water, and be enclosed by a railing. It would be a magical garden feature...
Willow Stump - Site of My Tree House
Non-Gardening Partner said he would 'think about it'. But he didn't come up with a design - he reckoned it wouldn't be safe or stable enough. Oh well. Never mind. A rather nice (if a little silly) idea. And now, twenty years later, the stump has finally gone. Most of it rotten, NGP finally chain-sawed it all down. So he was right, yes?