Which way is up?

This Western Red Cedar is beside the track in Ballygrant Woods. The branch doesn't seem to have known whether it was meant to grow up or down, though presumably it all started with some kind of injury when *much* younger.
Malcolm

Unidentified Fly

I have asked the Dipterist Forum for help with the ID of this one...  Rather splendid antennae.  Found resting on sawn timber in Ballygrant wood.  About 20mm long.  Any ideas anybody?  Carl

Bombus pascuorum - Common Carder bumble bee

Ballygrant Wood

Paps of Jura from Ballygrant Loch

Timber at Ballygrant

Large piles of sawn timber are waiting by the track next to Loch Ballygrant

There are still significant amounts of trees to be seen that were blown down by the winter storms in Ballygrant woods.

Storm damage

Walking through Ballygrant Woods yesterday, we came across this amazing sight of a tree which has fallen between the two upright stems of another tree in the January hurricane. There are a great many other fallen trees there just as there are in Bridgend Woods.
Malcolm