I"ve always been scared of trees. Right from when I was a young kid. Not so much in the daylight, but at night… at night the glimpses of trees as we shot past them in the car and the headlights lit them up were terrifying. But worse was knowing they were still there, right beside us, after the headlights swept past.
I"m not sure where the fear comes from. I remember a book, Hansel and Gretel I guess, about kids escaping from a witch. A picture where they were fleeing through a dark wood. In that picture all the trees had eyes and teeth, and it scared me every time I saw it.
Maybe that started it. Or maybe it was the fact we lived out in the countryside, so in the winter almost every journey involved driving past woods and forests, the trees looking twisted and evil in the headlights, a
