old tools make pretty centerpieces

you may or may not know what this is. i'm betting you don't. along the lake by where i live, for years, for a large portion of the lake property, it's been overgrown for decades after the heyday of the lumber era. more recently the overgrowth has been getting cleared. this summer they constructed a bike path along the lake. this is one of the discoveries along the path. it is a thing that is used for huge ships to tie their lines around. there is a line of them running along what used to be a huge docking area. each one is about 20 feet from the water.