Observations by purplemap4

This old willow had seen hard times. The main trunk is about four feet in diameter. The horizontal part appears to have split but healed the breach with amazing patchwork of bark. I now find it a great place to rest with a book, unseen by most visitors to the Aldo Leopold Nature Center as the view is blocked by its luxurious curtain of strands, each bearing hundreds of leaves, today all of them gently moving in the breeze

I have never seen this kind of tree anywhere else than the Aldo Leopold Nature Center. A clump of these grow beside the pond and someone made a bed of cattail fluff that is carefully arranged in a sheltered spot. Last winter these tree sheltered me as I took refuge from the wind for a few minutes