Woodland oddities

Deep in the dark wood, you sometimes come across trees that appear to be frozen in the act of being something else....      A parrot swooping down to a slender birch tree....

Or two brothers squaring up for a fight...  

Or a long-limbed dancer....

Or some kind of squirming, many-tentacled, sea creature, perhaps.  

Then again, perhaps I'd just overdosed on magic mushrooms in the forest: