A Hunger for Knowledge

This was a sculpture we saw as we walked toward Trim Castle.  It is  made out of bog wood.  Sometimes when you walk around a bog, you can see trees that are buried or steeped in the peat and the wood gets preserved by the acidity of the peat bog.  The wood can be hundreds or even thousands of years old, and it is protected from decay by the bog, though the tree itself, does not go on living.  The  wood is remarkable in color, hardness, and age.