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An Australian Tree-Face Hugger Vine   November 21, 2024 On a hike in Lamington National Forest in southern Queensland, Australia, I saw a lot of trees getting engulfed by strangler fig trees. They are banyans and drop roots downward as they surround their host. The strangler surrounding this tree had a certain H. R. Giger-esque bio-horror quality to it, like a flora version of an Alien movie. I'm sure there's some 'trunk-burster' plant that will eventually and slowly emerge from this. All I could do is watch this in horror and then move on. While the world was in color, I felt that sepia-tone black & white was appropriate for this one. Here is a bigger version of the image.

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I tend to doodle. Over the years, I've accumulated lots of random sketches of things, sometimes people, sometimes things, and sometimes just abstract lines. The basic idea on these pages is for me to slowly scan in highlights from my collection of random quick doodles. I also am providing a place where I can explain what it is or what motivated it or perhaps some reason why I'm not to blame. With the sketches of people, their name may be hand-written, or there might be a talk title provided, but I will tend to avoid providing full names. I don't mind if people know who they are, I just don't want them coming up on search engine hits, since that might be a bit rude.

Note that the images are PNGs with transparency. Mozilla and Firefox properly render them. Safari too, I think. Internet Exporer doesn't. I don't care.
If you want to see the image without the annoying blue-lined background image, just click on the image.

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