One tree down

There's a One Tree challenge going on, recording changes through the year and so on.
I did this for a while on another website, focusing on a giant sycamore not far from where I live. You can see it at different seasons here.
Last September I went to pay it a visit and found it fallen (blipped here)
Today I went back for the first since then. The tree has been sawn into large sections and dragged down into the field, perhaps to be sold, or turned into firewood. Most of the timber is in perfect conditon but the heartwood contained some small blemishes which my eye for a pareidolia saw as a sad face.

I'd like to think that some of the wood will be used to make something. Sycamore wood was traditionally crafted into clogs, toys and utensils, being pale in colour (easily dyed) and resin-free. It was often used for the wooden love spoons that young men in Wales carved for their sweethearts, the more elaborate the work the more ardent was their affection was considered to be. Popular girls might collect several.

More practical, if less romantic, are the spoons carved by one Barnaby Carder who makes a living out of producing them by hand. He started whittling them on the streets and attracted so much interest that he has set himself up with a shopfront in east London. Each spoon he makes is unique. He uses redundant sycamore from a local cemetery (Tower Hamlets) that is managed as a conservation area. He's a lovely man who has given over his life to working with wood - do have a look at the short clip I've linked to if you have time.