The Witching Woods

The woods can be so creepy. Some of your photos are just that with their gnarled and twisted branches; it's as if God had reached down and squeezed the trees into something more than just trees . . . something unearthly.

It's easy to assume that all trees grow straight and wide and strong. But here, they are misshapen and grotesquely twisted. It's as if the very ground itself refused to properly nourish them. They are leafless, black trees that thrust bare and crooked limbs toward the fulminous sky as if they were misguided believers praising a false and violent god. If there were trees in Hell, I believe that this is what they would look like.