Random pictures thread

Probably not. A tree’s girth will expand all over, but upward growth is at the tips of the branches. When “sweethearts” carve their initials on a tree, those initials will still be there, same height from the ground, years later.
That doesn’t make sense to me. As a tree grows it gets taller as well as wider. I could see where the tree was grown around the lip of the barrel.