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Over the past few days I've been watching a lot of movies - don't ask why - but it struck me how many spooky trees there were.
There's the obvious tree of 'Reflect-the-darkness-within-your-own-soul' in Empire Strikes Back.
The tree of 'Get-the-girl-covered-in-muck-to-meet-an-evil-bloated-devil-toad' from Pan's Labyrinth.
The tree that screams 'Christopher-Walken-and-his-sharp-pointy-teeth-is-buried-under-here' fron Sleepy Hollow.
As well as the Whomping Willow, or rather 'Let's-cheer-for-the-tree-and-hope-he-splats-the-brat' from Harry 'Effin' Potter. ;)
Such an overdose of evil greenery inspired me to go into my garden and photograph my very own 'Something-gribbly-dwells-within' tree.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/spazmutt/P100044525.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/spazmutt/P100044720.jpg
But at least I'm only harbouring a little bit of spookyness:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/spazmutt/P100044420.jpg
:twisted:
DarrenSV650S
28-01-08, 06:34 PM
Can we see your blue hair K
Spiderman
28-01-08, 08:57 PM
Thats brilliant K! :lol:
I was even looking into the trunk on the second pic and wondering if you'd let one of your slithery friends up in there.... until i saw the last pic of course :oops:
:laughat: :spiderman:
Can we see your blue hair K
OK, random. ;) Though like my bike, my hair also looks black in most photos, even though it's really very, very, dark blue. ;)
Thats brilliant K! :lol:
I was even looking into the trunk on the second pic and wondering if you'd let one of your slithery friends up in there.... until i saw the last pic of course :oops:
:laughat: :spiderman:
Oooooh - if I got Egg to crawl over it he might manage a passable Godzilla impression. :twisted:.
He's 16" nose to tail - and that tree's only about 12" tall.:p
DarrenSV650S
29-01-08, 07:03 PM
OK, random. ;) Though like my bike, my hair also looks black in most photos, even though it's really very, very, dark blue. ;)
Ok yeh that was random. But you were the one that put it in your signature:rolleyes:
....... sooooooooooooo, you must of put it there for a reason;)
Ok yeh that was random. But you were the one that put it in your signature:rolleyes:
....... sooooooooooooo, you must of put it there for a reason;)
Probably because of the many comments I get whenever people see my bike (and it's not sunny, which shows it's true colour) they call it a nice 'black' bike, :roll: which were pretty much the same comments I got from friends when I first dyed my hair again...
.. and I'd done a new avatar with blue hair. Thought I'd explain why.
Oh, and someone reminded me it was a U-rated site and it was unfair of me to ruin all those kiddies lives by having "Santa isn't real" as my old sig... ;)
... and the usual reason that I couldn't think of anything remarkably witty to put. :oops:
Um. Yeah - I think that was it. ;)
DarrenSV650S
29-01-08, 08:03 PM
Probably because of the many comments I get whenever people see my bike (and it's not sunny, which shows it's true colour) they call it a nice 'black' bike, :roll: which were pretty much the same comments I got from friends when I first dyed my hair again...
.. and I'd done a new avatar with blue hair. Thought I'd explain why.
Oh, and someone reminded me it was a U-rated site and it was unfair of me to ruin all those kiddies lives by having "Santa isn't real" as my old sig... ;)
... and the usual reason that I couldn't think of anything remarkably witty to put. :oops:
Um. Yeah - I think that was it. ;)
Well I'm convinced.8-[ You certainly have a way with words:)
Spiderman
29-01-08, 10:19 PM
Oooooh - if I got Egg to crawl over it he might manage a passable Godzilla impression. :twisted:.
He's 16" nose to tail - and that tree's only about 12" tall.:p
Do it and photoshop some little teny people running away as he breaths fire at them :lol:
pencil shavings
30-01-08, 12:39 PM
what is that tree? very cool!!
It's a Field Maple - the leaves are very like the one on the Canadian flag - only green not red. ;)
pencil shavings
30-01-08, 03:29 PM
It's a Field Maple - the leaves are very like the one on the Canadian flag - only green not red. ;)
oh cool!! we have a Maple in our garden, or somthing that looks like it, the leaves are just like the one on the Canadian Flag. Except its more of bush than a tree, so not sure if its the same!
Ummmm, so why dosent yours have any leaves?:reaper:
Ummmm, so why dosent yours have any leaves?:reaper:
Cos it's winter(ish). :rolleyes:;)
pencil shavings
30-01-08, 06:39 PM
Cos it's winter(ish). :rolleyes:;)
yeah, thats a very good point. I thought for some reason that they would be ever greens!
This is very cool! Id like to grow one of these!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FIRETHORN-STARTER-BONSAI-TREE-READY-FOR-TRAINING-NOW_W0QQitemZ140201766279QQihZ004QQcategoryZ20524Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
These guys aren't that far away from you then:
http://www.herons.co.uk/
This is actually where I got that Maple from. They have everything from little baby starter trees to maturely sculpted ones.
Waaaaay better to buy from that off the internet (unless you see photos of the actual tree - but shipping can still be a nightmare) and a whole world better than the mass produced, stringy, clay-bound stumps that come from China and end up in the likes of B&Q or your local Garden Centres. :roll:
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