The Tree Is Dying, Isn't It?

"I've been so busy doing my stuff, i've neglected dad. So i think maybe we'll go down and shoot a couple of games a pool," he says. "He turned it on a lathe and made this for me." The dark marks that you see are called spalting,. a l t an g and really it's a process of the tree kind of dying. These little streaks are parts of the tree that are no longer vibrant, i believe.