Horse Chestnut

 These boughs of a Horse Chestnut*, snaking out over the Middle Lake at Nostell Priory have been polished by generations of young explorers so that the scaly bark resembles the skin of a serpent.

*Not London Plane, as I’d said in the original version of this post. I went back and checked the buds and they’re big, brown and sticky.

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