Sad,sad, sad: I was walking through a "Wildlife Nature Preserve" the other day, there were many dead trees, stagnate ponds choked with weeds and algae, not a bird in sight, nothing to...

malvin

I was walking through a "Wildlife Nature Preserve" the other day, there were many dead trees, stagnate ponds choked with weeds and algae, not a bird in sight, nothing to photograph until I came across this scary looking tree! A bit later, while walking around, a woman ran up to me and ask me to help look for her daughter who had disappeared suddenly in the woods. She said that her daughter was easy to spot, because she was wearing bright orange gloves....... I was lost for words!

jack schade Loc: La Pine Oregon

That is very sad indeed.

jack

Elias Amador

Some trees are well known flesh eaters, this looks like one.

SteveZas Loc: Lemont, Illinois

malvin wrote:

I was walking through a "Wildlife Nature Pres... (show quote)

Good one!!

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

malvin wrote:

I was walking through a "Wildlife Nature Preserve" the other day, there were many dead trees, stagnate ponds choked with weeds and algae, not a bird in sight, nothing to photograph until I came across this scary looking tree! A bit later, while walking around, a woman ran up to me and ask me to help look for her daughter who had disappeared suddenly in the woods. She said that her daughter was easy to spot, because she was wearing bright orange gloves....... I was lost for words!

MSW

carnivorous trees ... hmmm ... glad i have fuel for the chainsaw

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

malvin wrote:

I was walking through a "Wildlife Nature Preserve" the other day, there were many dead trees, stagnate ponds choked with weeds and algae, not a bird in sight, nothing to photograph until I came across this scary looking tree! A bit later, while walking around, a woman ran up to me and ask me to help look for her daughter who had disappeared suddenly in the woods. She said that her daughter was easy to spot, because she was wearing bright orange gloves....... I was lost for words!

....and the frightening, captivating old tree is no longer known as Tatty Gloveless.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

malvin wrote:

I was walking through a "Wildlife Nature Preserve" the other day, there were many dead trees, stagnate ponds choked with weeds and algae, not a bird in sight, nothing to photograph until I came across this scary looking tree! A bit later, while walking around, a woman ran up to me and ask me to help look for her daughter who had disappeared suddenly in the woods. She said that her daughter was easy to spot, because she was wearing bright orange gloves....... I was lost for words!

Great image!!!
Looks like a Gargoyle!!
I can see where that would have been a shock at first , after studying the tree the orange looks like some kind of flower.
Did she find her daughter?

malvin

Yes, the mother did find her daughter, but we were left with a mystery, she was missing one orange glove??

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Yes, very sad! That tree is going to be very cold with only one glove! And I would bet that he was lost for words as well!

GES

It is sad to me that you would use a fabrication of a child's disappearance as a framework for your joke-photo about a tree. A child's disappearance ,for whatever reason, is not something that lends itself well to humor. I'm sure you didn't mean anything by it, but still...

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

GES wrote:

It is sad to me that you would use a fabrication of a child's disappearance as a framework for your joke-photo about a tree. A child's disappearance ,for whatever reason, is not something that lends itself well to humor. I'm sure you didn't mean anything by it, but still...

Geeze!!

cyan Loc: Northern NJ

Retired CPO wrote:

Yes, very sad! That tree is going to be very cold with only one glove! And I would bet that he was lost for words as well!

Who says trees have 2 hands?

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

cyan wrote:

Who says trees have 2 hands?

Note, I didn't say anything about needing two gloves, just that the tree only had one. No mention, intentionally, of how many he/she might actually need.

How could I possibly know how many "arms" the tree might have, thus, how would I know how many "hands" the tree might have, thus, how many gloves the tree might need??? Who is to say that some arms don't have any hands, or that some arms don't have more than one hand. Trees are like that, sometimes, don't cha think???? And you have to consider right vs left hand gloves...And then you have opened another can of worms. And, speaking of worms...
See where I'm going with this????

bob7fred

Great shot. You must like horror stories. Sleepy Hollow?