Headstart

From one of our daily mile-long walks there was this.

For sure there's a trail camera in the photo - yet that's not the point.

If you look carefully there is an oak seeding that has taken root at the base of the tree the camera is strapped-to.  

That tree is a green ash.  And it is doomed to the depredations of the emerald ash borer.

Ma Nature is a smart mother to allow that oak the opportunity to become established. 

Ash is gonna strike-out.

Oak is in the one deck circle.