Hope (and willows) Spring Eternal

So back in August, Hurricane Irene did a little landscaping to our front yard.  The next weekend, Jeff's parents came to visit, and Jeff and his dad took a chainsaw to the remnants of our weeping willow.  I never got the whole story, but they ended up leaving the stump.  Little did they know, it would quickly work on growing back.

They cut the rest of the tree into logs, I guess with the hope that someday we will be brave enough to use our fire pit and can put it in there.  (Does willow burn well????)  The wood is stacked behind our tool shed.  To our surprise, this weekend we realized it too was growing.

And if you look closely, the new shoots are coming out of the middle of the logs.

Kinda creepy.  It's alive!  We may just have our very own whomping willow.