Even when something has passed away, new life can be found growing out from the old. This glasswort has given the dead stump from a previous tree new life and beauty.
Here is another unique and beautiful perspective on tree that once was. This stump seems to represent multiple trees grown in close enough proximity that they became one beautiful structure.
Anyone can look at a stump from above, as they walk over or by it, and see that a tree once stood there. If you get down to where the crawling creatures walk, you no longer see a stump. You see a great and beautiful thing.