#SilentSunday although not entirely silent because there's a woodpecker up there somewhere but couldn't spot it.
@neuralreckoning man this picture is perfect for describing how trees grow their branches/leaves using fractal geometry to maximize surface area in a limited volume
@neuralreckoning
Nice. I read somewhere on mastodon, a few months ago, that this is called "crown shyness", or "timidité" in French https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_shyness
@weberam2
@weberam2 yes! I was so happy to see such a great example of the canopy not overlapping.