I was just walking by when I happened to look up and saw this tree branch.
It was visually a little confusing at first due to the profusion of greenery, but I quickly realized that it was a dead branch, a disconnected limb that was all that remained of a tree that was no longer there. But then, I wondered why the branch had not been removed along with the rest of the tree and instead was left to hang in the fence.
I stepped closer, and the answer became clear.
The branch had not grown through the fence, but rather had engulfed that bar like an amoeba, incorporating it into itself, and continued to grow. Why was it allowed to grow that way? -- it must have taken many years for it to happen! Was it simply neglected until the branch grew so far out over the sidewalk as to create a possible hazard to tall pedestrians, or at least a bothersome obstacle, by which time it was too late to remove it from the fence without undue effort?
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