Wednesday 22 August 2007

Ghoulish trees

YK's school is situated amidst a tranquil residential estate, and is accessible via a small road. After I drop him off every morning, I'll join the long line of cars, inching our way out to the main road. For the next 10 minutes or so, I find myself admiring the nice bungalows and staring at ghoulish looking trees lining the road. I don't know what species but these trees have the ugliest tree trunks. I see nothing but tormented faces on the lumpy black trunks. Take a look... I'm not exaggerating...and this is one of the better looking ones!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

The human mind seeks meaningful info from semmingly random patterns. This is how people can see animals in the clouds, or the Virgin Mary in a piece of toast.

Blur Ting said...

Does it mean that I'm frustrated waiting in the traffic jam, so I see monsters while if I'm looking at beautiful clouds on a lovely day, I see puppies?

Then how come I don't see puppies on my toast?

You should go look at those trees lah!

Anonymous said...

Blur, if I look at a texturized ceiling - not that I ever do, but if I did - I always see scary faces. I've no doubt I would see the same ghoulish expressions in those tree trunks.

Blur Ting said...

oh Holly, really? I don't see scary faces in other things except for these trees.

Do you see nice things in clouds?

Anonymous said...

Oh, all the time. I see animals playing a lot when I look at the shapes of clouds.

Unknown said...

Ooooohhhhhh...I see scary sleeping giants when I look at mountain ranges.

Blur Ting said...

Trees do take on a rather eerie appearance at night. Maybe it's because we watch too much horror movies featuring creepy old trees.

Somehow we always see nice things in clouds. I just saw a kangaroo and poodle this morning up in the clouds! Not just me, my kids agreed too!

Unknown said...

These trees remind me of a scene from Disney's Snow White...

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