The Remains of the Tree

We had a really stormy day last Tuesday.  Lashing rain and gale-force winds (it is afterall Autumn!) wreaked havoc in our garden and I arrived home to discover the most-adorable(but-not-the-brightest)-pups-in-the-world taking shelter under the garden bench with complete disregard for their lovely warm, cosy (and sheltered) kennels, and a large chunk of our tall oak tree in the middle of the lawn.  Eeek...  Poor things, must have given them a big fright when the tree fell from the sky.

It's another windy day today, albeit a really warm berg wind, but apparently tomorrow we're due to catch the tail end of Hurricane Katia which is currently mid-Atlantic somewhere and moving in our direction. 

Here's hoping the rest of the oak tree stands its ground...