Showing posts with label twisted roots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twisted roots. Show all posts

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Gonna grab you!

Snow and moss outline the roots of an overturned tree. Usually, it's a tangly blob in the dark; now it looks almost alive, even menacing.

Careful out there!

Snow changes everything.

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Las raices de un árbol caído, expuestos al aire, delineadas por musgos y nieve; otros días era una masa enredada, oscura, casi imperciptible entre las sombras del bosque. Ahora, es un ser vivo, amenazante, dispuesto a saltar y atraparte. ¡Cuidado! (O como decimos en México: —¡Aguas!)

La nieve cambia todo.


Friday, November 29, 2019

Twisty

I'm always intrigued by those snags and logs that are twisted in a spiral, like hand-washed clothes wrung out and ready to hang. What giant hands wrung these out, I wonder.

An uprooted stump, long dead, on Baikie Island exposes spiral-grained roots. And comes with an extra: a lizard and a snake howling at the sky.

Looks like the central cores of the roots grew straight, but the outer layers are wrapped around them on an angle. Why?



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