Velodog2
Chumono
Smoke has me on ignore, but I would like to know more about that particular tree if he knows anything about it. The foliage looks like shimpaku, which doesn’t usually grow on a straight trunk. In fact, the foliage looks like it was grafted on. Even the deadwood branches don’t look “natural” to me. They look as if they were created by drilling a hole in the trunk, and gluing them in.
Don’t get me wrong, I think the image it makes is beautiful! I just wonder how much of that tree was “engineered”. Whoever did it was really good.
Well now that I’ve atoned for disparagement, I’ll turn around and agree that it is somehow odd looking, although again, beautiful overall. Odd both in the angle and attachment of the branches and again that damned foliage, And as for having needles, rereading the post I see that Smoke more or less presented it as thus, so there. Enough, I swear, I won’t meantion that tree again!