Against the grain

More of the old-is-new-again Longleaf Yellow Pine in Brooklyn Bridge Park. This time I was looking at the knots and the resulting eddies of tree rings formed around them.During the last year, you were probably a combination of a little bit nice and a little bit naughty. (Whew! I know I was, but we’ll pass on the details.) Trees, although homophonically knotty, don’t have anything to do with our hominid morality: a knot is basically the root of a branch around which the body of the tree has grown. So it’s rings within rings.