Fallen trees

I've been taking photographs of fallen trees in the Chilterns since 2003. For one fallen tree in particular, I have been snapping multiple shots from the same viewpoint all this time at various times of the year.  It's visible here:

(tip - click on any pic to see full size)

It's difficult to give an idea of the scale, but it was a large specimen.  Indeed, it was visible from space for some time, as this Google Earth image from 2004 shows:

  

The exact location is: 51.749130°  -0.770632°

One problem with taking pictures in a forest is that you can't see the tree for the wood (!) - it's impossible to stand back.  So instead I set up a tripod fairly close to it and take about a dozen shots.

The resulting sweep of individual pics are cunningly stitched together to make panoramas which, although they bear little relation to how it's perceived, can be eyecatching.  Here's one from its first winter:

 

 

 From the second spring:

...and this is what it looked like around 7 years later:

And there are other fallen beasts - another sample:

Inertia

Scene: the queue at Lidl. Opposite me is a guy who is buying two items - one is a 2 litre bottle of some drink or other. He has laid it across the belt. Every time the belt lurches forwards, the bottle predictably attempts to stay where it is and rolls 'backwards'. This comes into conflict with his place marker and once or twice dislodges items from the stack of the person following. Several times, he rearranges the bottle further forward.

I wonder whether he has any notion of inertia, and how he could simply lie the bottle down with its long axis along the belt to avoid this repeated learning opportunity.

At least, he didn't stand the bottle up, and have it fall over each time. There might yet be hope for humanity.