Trees Can Be Possessive, Too

Trees Can Be Possessive, Too

Here are two photos from Shane at the Elite Feet site [link]. He posts photos of unusual scenes he stumbles upon while running in the backwoods and these two photos struck me as particularily interesting.

In our day-to-day life we operate with automobiles and motorcycles to amplify our personal mobility and we can easily see tree as static and immobile objects in the background of our activities. Its funny how our relatively quick time scale (as compared to trees) can bias our perception of machines as being alive and the trees as inanimate objects.

Yet the facts are just the opposite and these photos are the proof. I can't help but wonder what the operators were thinking the last time they parked there vehicles and walked away.