sunny circle of life

In the summer of 2014 a freak weather phenomenon, called a downdraft, took down countless trees in our section of town and snapped in two our Lebanon Cedars. We kept a section of the trunk (now used as a support for plant pots) where you can see the concentric circles marking the many years of growth. With the radiating cracks and the warm colors of the Cedar wood, it made me think of an abstract representation of the sun.