Seeing as tomorrow is All Hallows Eve I thought it was rather an apt day to introduce some strange and mysterious creatures that inhabit some of the woodland areas around where I live. Quiet watchers in amongst the trees ... where unless one looks carefully, one might not see them, they stay silent and still ... eyes not blinking as they stare at the intruding stranger ... me ...
Trees, fascinate me and most especially the beautiful beeches. These matriarchs of the woods are just wonderful beings with great characters. Walking in spring when their leaves are a pale, translucent green is a delightful sign that spring is beginning. Their thick, dark summer canopies that provide welcome shade on a hot sunny day to sheep with heavy wool fleece and then as autumn approaches, those magnificent gold and bronze colours in sunlight, so soon followed by multi-coloured drifts of leaves that swirl in the mischievous breezes and the joy of walking through deep drifts of tobacco scented, deep heaps of them. Something the dog loves to dive into ...
But he is not one of the strange creatures I am alluding to, though some find his tri-merle colouration rather odd.
No, the creatures I am going to show you are all to be found in local beech trees ...
now ... we have a multitude of wild rabbits locally but hares have not been seen here for a long time and then I found this one ...
Isn't it wonderful? But there are others too that I have found on my walkabouts ... which definitely do not seem to be native inhabitants ... Indian or African elephant child ...
And if you think that is strange ... how about this Egyptian head ...
and yet another head, more alien than say a native dragon ...
but, if one has the childish imagination to see, then this dragon of the woods seems real ...
Draig Coed, or Wood Dragon is one of my favourite finds. He keeps a weather beaten eye
over the cwm beneath him and all the grazing sheep that pass him by on a daily basis.
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