New year, new discoveries

Last year, we had multiple trees die due to drought conditions in our area. It was the largest number of trees we ever lost at one time. We cut up the felled trees and saved the best pieces for our son, who likes to work with wood. While waiting for the wood to season, our sausage-like cat seems to enjoy jumping between these two logs -- it is his main workout for the day.

The photograph of the tree rings was made using the Rolleiflex SL66 and the 80 mm lens on a chunk of Kodak Tri-X film. Conventional silver halide based photography, in other words.