Excuse me but squeezing down 10,000 pixels back to a lousy 900 px for display on-screen does not do this image (and possibly most other images on this site) any justice at all - a monstrous gum in Warburton Victoria

The juice of life has left the boney carcass of this marvellous beast

Some deep scars make this old man a prophetic day Speaker, he shimmers in anger and power

Sitting behind us in the neighbour’s corner sit this magnificent gum, been there a long while, and I’ve witnessed it bending with the gales and bouncing back as if it were a dance with the elements. Sadly, the tree is being ringbarked and I watch it daily approaching the ever-slow garrotting by two nesting galahs, dooming their home to an early death just because those self-centred bird cut into the bark fir the sweet moorish nourishment the tree sucks up from the ground.