Stumps

I was walking in a community park close to the neighborhood where I was living in Virginia at the time. I began to notice how park management was clearing out the old trees, or sick and damaged ones. They would saw the trees close to the root and then leave the stumps there to rot. This had been going on probably since the land was bought to establish the park so many of the stumps showed considerable decay, creating patterns with cracks, fungi, and how leaves covered them in fall.