Burls Out, by James Eger

...so there I was in the Avitar Glades, staring at the largest burl in Canada, and maybe one of the biggest in the entire world.  It sits about 15 feet up an old growth cedar and is about the size of a 1950's Cadillac...or maybe a vw bus.  One absolutely ginormous 2000 year old tumor, quietly presiding over a truely magical forest that started growing before the advent of Christianity, before white people existed in North America, and before the Vikings pillaged and burned all they could...which brings me to my final thought: "so there I was, burls deep in the forest..."


by James Eger