Do you know a tree with a face in it?
Thursday 25th August 2011, 3:56PM BST.
Like Grandma Willow in the film Pocahontas or Harry Potter’s Whomping Willow, trees across Shropshire and Mid Wales have been taking on almost human and animal forms.
People out and about with their cameras enjoying the summer have been snapping photographs of what they say are lifelike forms in the bark and roots of trees.
Sarah Gibson, of Oswestry, found a field maple “dog” tree growing on a rocky outcrop in the Oswestry hills, with its aerial roots giving the appearance of legs and branches growing from the head.
Meanwhile, one tree in Dolgoch Falls in Mid Wales appeared to have not one but several strange faces in its bark.
Shropshire Star reporter Sue Austin said: “The bark was amazing, completely gnarled.
“We spotted three or four different ‘faces’ and even a horse’s head.”
Trees that can move and talk are found in many books and films. In Lord of the Rings, Ent was a fictional tree-man creature, who called on his fellow tree creatures to help defeat evil.
- Have you spotted weird shapes or faces in trees? Send your photographs and details by e-mail to photodesk@shropshirestar.co.uk
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I’ve got a photograph of someone whose face is a simulacrum of a tree. You’d have thought having a complexion like that, they wouldn’t have had their hair dyed green and bubble perm’d, but some people just won’t listen.
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