### Can’t keep away from Collis P. Huntington State Park... always some action!
[![TREE-01.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmW2xBAh6kpH6oSZydXsRYywLb9kSebHEcAZqUPmQpKhLB/TREE-01.JPG)](https://steemitimages.com/DQmW2xBAh6kpH6oSZydXsRYywLb9kSebHEcAZqUPmQpKhLB/TREE-01.JPG)
#### Come with me with a quick look inside the guts of this just-fallen tree.. hasn't even gotten wet yet.
[![TREE-02.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdmj2kGzwoSL4dWWvArPXNNQQp6w4yFXRNu4HNYVtkPUF/TREE-02.JPG)](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdmj2kGzwoSL4dWWvArPXNNQQp6w4yFXRNu4HNYVtkPUF/TREE-02.JPG)
### Evidence of the powerful stresses involved..
[![TREE-03.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcvjj24F3ha7tzoCG3fx1YobKcCxR2fXdkMtXzdnqQ9Ar/TREE-03.JPG)](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcvjj24F3ha7tzoCG3fx1YobKcCxR2fXdkMtXzdnqQ9Ar/TREE-03.JPG)
### Long fibrous strands splintering into wild patterns.
[![TREE-04.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmb1YiRw4yNmckoqVv6DMuBAmvQVb6iRScCwaSKR4HZ1Wb/TREE-04.JPG)](https://steemitimages.com/DQmb1YiRw4yNmckoqVv6DMuBAmvQVb6iRScCwaSKR4HZ1Wb/TREE-04.JPG)
### As the wood buckled and folded upon itself, in the deep center of the fulcrum.. tightly curved pieces are amazing to see..
[![TREE-05.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZTh7cAxKa23wQ2SHAbqTpnKSCtscxSvRet1k5HY3D6zj/TREE-05.JPG)](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZTh7cAxKa23wQ2SHAbqTpnKSCtscxSvRet1k5HY3D6zj/TREE-05.JPG)
### Furry, even fuzzy edges to the freshly exposed core wood..[![TREE-06.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaGgRFetVMsQBhTyanND8QXrCzaqdnnz276bDQXRgNtzY/TREE-06.JPG)](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaGgRFetVMsQBhTyanND8QXrCzaqdnnz276bDQXRgNtzY/TREE-06.JPG)
### A view perpendicular to the previous view.. a rarely seen insect-free space riddled with sharp spines..
[![TREE-07.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVLSUvDmAczZmZvHvqmocU5YqHLX4CC8fNe3AKasAWpzJ/TREE-07.JPG)](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVLSUvDmAczZmZvHvqmocU5YqHLX4CC8fNe3AKasAWpzJ/TREE-07.JPG)
### Delicate edge of the destruction..
[![TREE-08.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcQ2nXuMw89MMKcwSFn2DdGojpscCq3SWevxCyeiBRtgL/TREE-08.JPG)](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcQ2nXuMw89MMKcwSFn2DdGojpscCq3SWevxCyeiBRtgL/TREE-08.JPG)
### Not unlike the trees in the distance in it's density..
[![TREE-09.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUcMfz47fM7vfARhY19pASoZF2BUAJe7X3HbrVcTG1pCJ/TREE-09.JPG)](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUcMfz47fM7vfARhY19pASoZF2BUAJe7X3HbrVcTG1pCJ/TREE-09.JPG)
### So clean and organically fresh..
[![TREE-10.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRzWXNyak4kxHenyRF5fuwQP6NRJAKmAfFion34awWtxx/TREE-10.JPG)](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRzWXNyak4kxHenyRF5fuwQP6NRJAKmAfFion34awWtxx/TREE-10.JPG)
### To the opposite side of the trunk..
[![TREE-11.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmarjwjxSqTQCNiWbQ53yQig7dBcr3g8ucYV4EnxygJgsx/TREE-11.JPG)](https://steemitimages.com/DQmarjwjxSqTQCNiWbQ53yQig7dBcr3g8ucYV4EnxygJgsx/TREE-11.JPG)
### I find a little window through to the late afternoon Sun..
[![TREE-12.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPL8gPQhzwG582jg96eLNKTf8HANepdPWaM7EGn81cET9/TREE-12.JPG)](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPL8gPQhzwG582jg96eLNKTf8HANepdPWaM7EGn81cET9/TREE-12.JPG)
#### Deep inside the center of the fallen section we find some black mold.. one half of the tree had been rotting inside.
[![TREE-13.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVMPXu5ww7AxEZ2VFB2QqfD7eBr1eAT8f5d4LkC2nFWg7/TREE-13.JPG)
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