My favourite tree

This is my favourite tree. Thanks to blipfoto I decided to stop and take a photograph.
This sycamore (I think) has clearly had a hard life. I walked all round it and it looks decidedly ropey and unwell. Maybe that is why it is such a wonderful and unusual shape. Pity about the annoying little fluffy cloud but as in great haste didnt have the time to wait for the cloud to pass by. Could have taken an age as it had a string of friends following on behind.