Got wood?

[NJPiney]

Unnecessary.

File your complaint with Mother Nature.

I had a similar feeling, thinking it was a naturally occurring and interesting looking trunk burl, until I noticed the screw holding it in place.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Your eyes are too good,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

File your complaint with Mother Nature.

Doesn't mean it doesn't have worth. Freaky can be good in the right circumstance.

I'm thinking the next time you're out in the woods in full bear avoidance mode that you will encounter something of this ilk and either capture it on film or be captured by it.

I'll be sure to report back here with any news of such adventures.

[NJPiney]

File your complaint with Mother Nature.

I had a similar feeling, thinking it was a naturally occurring and interesting looking trunk burl, until I noticed the screw holding it in place.

Back when I ran my tree service, many moons (and pounds) ago, my eyes were quickly drawn to any metal on trees. Neither our saws or our brush chipper were fond of it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I had a similar feeling, thinking it was a naturally occurring and interesting looking trunk burl, until I noticed the screw holding it in place.

Back when I ran my tree service, many moons (and pounds) ago, my eyes were quickly drawn to any metal on trees. Neither our saws or our brush chipper were fond of it.

I've hit my share of barbed wire that trees have grown around, Makes for a fun moment or 3.

[HONDO74]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Those two look like something is trying to get out - to emerge from captivity.

[NJPiney]

Last time I saw that second guy he was throwing apples at Dorothy.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I can see even further why forests were such forbidding places, loaded with superstitions and tales of visitations, especially at night, for folks during The Dark Ages, and the like, notwithstanding the violent tribes and marauding warriors hanging about..

[HONDO74]

[rogruth]

I spent a lot of time in woods and forests in my younger days.
Never saw anything like that but it probably would have scared the woods out of me at night.
But then I would haved returned the next day to see it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

But then I would have returned the next day to see it.

Yes!

[rogruth]

Rufus,
What is your tag line quote from?
And the avatar moves too fast for me to see anything.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I spent a lot of time in woods and forests in my younger days.
Never saw anything like that but it probably would have scared the woods out of me at night.
But then I would haved returned the next day to see it.

The same was true for me, too. My friends and I spent almost every Summer's day roaming the "woods" next to our suburb. The streets of houses were constantly being added to, with the post-WW2 housing construction going on constantly. That meant there were recently excavated foundations to be jumped into, recently framed houses being built to be climbed, and the stands of thousands of trees being cleared to be explored before they were gone, ostensibly.

In the Woods closest to our homes, there was the legend of "The Man of the Woods," who, it was purported, lived alone among and in the trees. So, that meant we always had to do searches for him, though we never actually came across any adults in there; however, we did see a vine that looked like he must have worked it into place, and swung on, for a bit of recreation (we theorized.)

The Woods were an exciting place to us boys to have adventures in. I loved it. (WE never even had any thought of bears possibly being around. I don't think they were, not at all.) We did, however, hear of a "Dog of the Woods," or more than one, which supposedly roamed freely. Never saw any dog(s) in there.

..

All of it, every inch of it, was Heaven.