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Originally Posted by pootsie
Christopher Treebeard, of all the people to say that trees don't look like that, I'd expect you to be the last!
HUMPH!
pootsie |
Yeah, OK,
. Trees can look like that. I can remember a while back, people telling me that bonsai like the one Lordy linked to are not what trees look like, and I'd come back with pictures similar to your links.
But then I came to realise,
I never see such trees in nature. The places I go to in England don't have such trees. There probably
are such trees somewhere in England, but I don't go to the places where they live. I like the gentle lowland countryside, with its typical sycamore brooms and the stag-headed oaks, and the hollow beeches ans so on.
And there are some pretty strange looking trees in these environments... especially the pollarded beeches. But they seem fundamentally different to the high-altitude pines, even though they have similarly fantastical shapes.
Maybe if I lived in the Rockies I would be saying "yeah, but trees don't look like that" with finger extended towards a neat, round broom...
Regards,
Chris.