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Twisted Trees

Tim Bray Posted by Tim Bray | Fri, 13 Jul 2012
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This is one of Haffords big tourist attractions. Since Hafford is a small place, its actually a very small tourist attraction, a clump of trees on someones farm down a country road off a country road. But theyre weird trees: Aspens, just like the other clump across the parking lot, only different.

Twisted Aspen near Hafford

Different, just like the name says: Twisty.

Twisted Aspens near Hafford Twisted Aspens near Hafford

It was hinted darkly to me by a local that Mysterious Forces Were At Work; and the little sign by the grove trumpets the mystery. But Wikipedia reveals that this is, probably, a mutation.

Hunkered down in the weeds between the twisted trees, this entirely untwisted wild rose, one of the Prairies most lovable citizens.

Wild rose near Hafford


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