Outdoor Tree Ornaments: Tree Faces

We all can prattle off our favorite color, size and fragrance of flower without hesitation but it's not often we're thinking personality by way of tree faces.Who knew?

It's a novel thing to create a world of flora that best betrays our own personality, our need for fun and relaxation, all without leaving our backyard --literally.

You’ll want to place your tree faces at a level that’s easy to accommodate both you and your feathered friends where they’ll feel safe eating. I’m thinking of sipping coffee in the early morn after just having filled the tree face-mouth-thingy, welcoming in new arrivals ready for breakfast.

Wouldn’t that be a wonderful way to begin a new day?

Expressions are indeed the language of people everywhere, where words need not apply to get the job done:

Convey a sense of peacefulness, with a smile, a sense of silliness, with a funny face or conversely, a note of foreboding, with mean, scary faces (think enchanted forests and wicked witches of fairy tales).

While there's no shortage of tree faces, it's the whimsical expressions that prove most popular.

I'm partial to this bespectacled guy for its unique features. The glasses, bushy eyebrows, beard and expression brings this 'whistler' tree face sculpture/decoration to the top of the list in the artistic realm.

With the simple addition of a real-life face, your yard can take on an air as outdoor art installation year round or as a fanciful, 'John Lennon' Halloween decoration. I'm for the year round plan.

Don't you agree?

Chances are you're the instrumental one with this most novel idea to add faces to your yard's trees, but you'll want to consider the ages of your children, if any.

Kids can go either way with tree faces: totally fascinated or terribly frightened, with the latter a no-go, lest your little ones refuse to play in their own yard. 

Having three boys with vastly different personalities, I can predict your kids will have mixed reviews about the new denizens out front or back. To help curtail their fears, let them help choose which tree face to use--even allow them to name each one. When the faces arrive, let 'em unpack the box and old the last scary piece in their hands. This way, they'll feel more acquainted with these new 'members of the family.'

There's no shortage of different textures, colors and expressions with this mix of tree faces I've included here, above and below but you may have a particular genre face in mind.

Do you want your tree face to seemingly melt into its surrounds?

Do you have trees with a darker bark? Do you want realistic people faces or whimsical tree decorations?

This too-cute blue-eyed guy is a great way to bring a unique appeal and a relaxed feeling to admirers who share your love of garden parties--even if it's just you and a friend. 

There's no wrong way to opt for what you like, as your outdoor palette --being Mother Nature--is quite arbitrary and forgiving.

Go with what you love and enjoy.