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Branch of a tree apparently assaulting another branch.
May 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Definitely a chicken in there.
May 15, 2021
Pattern in a tree’s bark resembles a chicken. Colored in bark area that looks like a chicken.
May 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Rare woodgator I found the Boone County Arboretum today.
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Snapped off tree trunk colored to look like an alligator. Snapped off tree trunk that just looks like an alligator with no alteration at all.
March 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Submission from my friend Connie to my #TheWildThingsArt hashtag game. She’s a lot better at it than I.
Oct 6, 2022
October 22, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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Found this critter there too.
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Tree growth that looked like an animal to me. I added color and some lines to accent the eyes, nose, and whiskers I imagined. The tree without my additions.
March 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Creatures in the trees.
Detroit International Wildlife Refuge
May 16, 2021
Grumpy tree face. Grumpy tree face woke up. Anguished face pattern in the tree bark. Gorilla being attacked by a jellyfish.
May 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Tree critter found in Flint, MI
June 28, 2021
Mangled part of a big tree reminded me of a big bird. The big bird colored in with iPhone photo edit tools.
June 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Van Biren State Park, MI
Aug 28, 2020
Tree that struck me as having an owl-like pattern in its bark. Same tree with two yellow eyes added via the Apple photo editing app.
August 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Found this bark-clown at the Ft. Custer Recreational Area in Michigan.
June 5, 2021
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Tree trunk with a bark pattern that looked to me like a big, round clown holding a stick. Big, round clown holding a stick highlighted with some translucent colors in the iPhone photo editing app.
June 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Angry looking burl.
Nov 6, 2022
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Patterns in the bark of a big burl look like an ogreish creature with its fist balled up as if it's looking for a fight. Burl creature with its eyes, nose, and mouth filled.
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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I haven't had occasion to do a #TheWildThingsArt piece in a while. Everybody can see this one, right?
Tree with bark patterns that look remarkably like half a face or a half veiled face appearing in them. Closer look at the tree looking at you.
May 17, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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Found this fellow in a tree by Henry Fords house in Dearborn, MI.
May 17, 2021
Unusual pattern in a tree resembles a face. I added color to accent the eyes, nose, lips, and chin resulting in someone who looks kind of medieval European to me. That wasn’t the intent. That’s just what appeared.
May 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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#TheWildThingsArt at an Ann Arbor park.
April 18, 2021
Tree growing around part of another tree looks like it’s chomping down on it. Same photo after editing to add eyes to bring my anthropomorphic vision to life. Is there a different word for attributing human characteristics to plants?
April 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Some examples of using pareidolia, photography, and simple photo editing tools to do some nature inspired art.

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The results of translucent blues and whites to bring out the face I saw in the patterns of a gnarly old tree. Strange birdlike face I saw in the patterns of a tree’s bark. Image of a clown highlighted with pastel colors.
April 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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One more from #TheWildThingsArt collection.
Cascade Peace Park, MI
May 15, 2021
Burrow beneath a tree root has what looked to me like three pointy, gray faces in it. Six eyes and three pink noses was all it took to turn it into a trio of possums.
May 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Accordian playing graphic artist, Connie, was one of the only folks who used to play #TheWildThingsArt with me back on the Twitter. This is one of her interpretations.
Swanton, OH
Oct 6, 2022
Trees changing over to fall colors with a spot in the middle that looks like lips with red lipstick. Same photo with warm, deep blue eyes added to bring our tree to life.
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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The name is Burl. Milton Burl.
Kensington Metropark
May 5, 2021
Large burl at the base of a tree with patterns that look like an ogre making a fist. Colors added in photo editing to reveal Milton the Burl.
May 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Fun with pareidolia in the woods.
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Gibralter, MI
May 1, 2021
Knob on a tree that resembles a froggy kind of creature. Results of using iPhone photo editing tools to add a little color and definition to froggy kind of creature. Knob on a tree that resembles a fish or a bird smoking a cigar. Results of using iPhone photo editing tools to add color and definition to the knob on the tree to bring out a cardinal smoking a cigar.
May 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Bark frog and Bigfoot burl.
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Kensington Metropark
May 26, 2021
Unusual pattern in a trees bark looks froggy to me. Frog face that came out with the application of some green, white, and yellow in photo edit. Burl in a tree looks like the face of a Bigfoot. Bigfoot face that appeared with the help of very little black, gray, and pink coloring in photo edit.
May 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Probably harmless —as long as you don’t litter.
Kensington Metropark
May 5, 2021
Gnarly tree trunk has suggestions of a wood creature in it. The wood creature. He is green with a long face, two white canine teeth, and soulful hazel eyes.
May 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Another bark-critter I found at Fort Custer RA a few years ago.
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Definitely some kind of critter face in the bark patterns of this tree. I don’t know how to describe this one after coloring it in. Whatever it is seems to have a greenish proboscis, whiskers, big green insect eyes, and a reddish tuft of hair between its eyebrows.
June 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Another #TheWildThingsArt piece from Crosswinds Marsh Metro Park. Looks a little tired.
May 30, 2021
A divergent branch clearly has a face in the bark pattern. Took very little to bring this one out. A little pink on the lips, gray on the nose, white on the eyes, and green on the eyebrows.
May 31, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Piece from my #TheWildThingsArt collection I found in the photo archives. This tree was at Crosswinds Metro Park in Michigan.
May 30, 2021
Tree trunk with an odd looking aberration in the bark pattern on the right sight about halfway up. Results of adding transparent colors in the photo editing process brought out this viking looking fella.
May 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Inspiration for Donnie Darko?
Found this piece of
#TheWildThingsArt in the photo roll archives.
April 8, 2022
Gnarly tree whose shapes in its trunk suggested images of the rabbit in Donnie Darko to my mind’s eye. Results of using the photo editing app on my iPhone to fill in what my imagination saw in the tree.
April 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Found these in the archives.
March 23, 2019
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Tree I modified with the iPhone photo editing tools to bring out what the shapes suggested to my imagination. This one looked to me like the tree on the right getting really aggressive with the one on the right and using a branch to pull on a knot hole. Original unedited photo. Tree I modified with the iPhone photo editing tools to bring out what the shapes suggested to my imagination. This one looked to me like a great gray owl blending into the bark with near perfect camouflage. Original unedited photo.
March 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM