More weird vegetation

OK - I am really enjoying my 'immersion' year. I think that this was the earliest we have ever arrived and I know it is the longest we have stayed. There is all sorts of stuff that is 'new, different and wonderful'. 
Alongside the cart path which runs along the canal there is a tree - a BIG tree - and I guess it didn't put on sunscreen with a big enough SPF sunblock factor. It is peeling like a tourist during Spring Break! 


I am so, SO glad it isn't on my property. I complain about the Live Oak in the neighborhood that shed leaves twice a year but this is ... this just is ...

and What the Heck lives in that bird house??  that's a BIG hole !!!