Googly Eyed Monster

[Greenhorn]

How about this guy my daughter and I came across on a hike at Joshua Tree N.P.

 

[DeborahJane]

Good job I don't live near you, i'd be sneaking out there with my tin of luminous paint

As long as you remember this garden is predominantly pinks and purples I'm sure iany decoration would be very tastefully done zigs

 

[zigs]

As long as you remember this garden is predominantly pinks and purples I'm sure iany decoration would be very tastefully done zigs

Can't see the stuff in the day, only glows green at night

Painted a Sheep's skull with it when I lived in Wales, that kept the locals out of the garden at night

 

[marlingardener]

Zigs, I'm so tempted! We recently got an Easter Island statue to put on a large stump in the front yard. Wouldn't he be handsome glowing greenly in the dark?

 

[zigs]

Cool

Stick a few of these in the hedges too

 

[DeborahJane]

Does anyone remember Wilbur and Cyril (thankyou Beverley for the names), my goggly eyed monster. I'm afraid this magnificent Powton , and all the other names it has, is comingbto an end. Several of its tallest branches snapped in a windstorm 2 days ago and what is left isnt worth saving.

] Sad heh!

 

[zigs]

Aww noo

 

[DeborahJane]

Yeah zigs. He even looks a bit sad

 

[Becky]

Oh no, that's a shame!

 

[Sheal]

It's sad to lose any plant, but when it's a mature tree that's been growing for many years it's loss is felt even more.

A couple of months ago I had a 60ft Scots Pine felled. A beautiful tree that was leaning quite badly and wasn't safe to leave standing.

 

[Logan]

Enough to give you nightmatesView attachment 15741Can anyone else see him? I'm hoping that when I go back down this morning in daylight he'll be gone, that is, it will just look like a normal tree to me.....instead of a horned, googleyeyed, confused thing lurking in my garden. Actually, he probably looks quite harmless....most likely trying to hide

Yes i can see him, but what about those green eyes in the purple flowered bush just in front of him.

 

[DeborahJane]

I must say you had me guessing for a while Logan but I eventually spied the green eyes down low. ....Keeping an eye on what is going on. I've got till early January to come to terms to saying farewell to this tree, the little bushy fella in the front will have to run for cover

 

[DeborahJane]

I obviously couldn't bring myself to say goodbye so now, 9 months later, i finally arranged for our wonderful woodsman to chop all but this solitary trunk which will soon burst out in bloom. Most likely its last hoorah but i just had to let it strut its stuff whilst there is stuff to strut, wouldn't you agree.

 

[roadrunner]

I got a pic of a single-eyed monster while hiking on the Appalachian Trail, this was in the state of Virginia.

 

[DeborahJane]

He does look like a bit of a oneeyed tree monster roadrunner.