Marking out the Big Top, Dead Wood, and Berries, 1st September

Yesterday was the fanfare, today they have arrived. Marking out the Big Top:

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It's the council's policy to let sawn trees stay where they lie, and be left for nature.
This tree is white and seems like old bones, from some prehistoric time:

Sometimes trees find the strangest ways of renewing themselves from what might seem like catastrophe...

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