brook_alder

This is my latest raw-material, wich I collected on a brook landscape.
To get the permission for collecting this alder was very easy.
A storm had impacted that area the neight before.
The workers, who cleared up the wind-damages the day after
gave me kindly permission to dig out the uprooted tree.

The nebari of the tree, 24 cms wide, with lots of knobs and warts on the old bark