THEY shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know. There was once a road ...
(Kipling)
The mosses add touches of colour when there is not much else as the icy blasts of winter rip through the land. No doubt the decaying tree is full of life.
Chris: The decay will be host to a huge amount of things causing it and in the process helping the health of the wood