These photos were all taken over the period of a few hours in 2018. The painted trees I found lakeside. Obviously, they had been painted by children, perhaps  by the children of the Ajijic Lake Chapala Society art class, since these trees were just outside its lakeside gates.

The tree “sculpture” was found somewhere in Ajijic, although I don’t remember ever seeing it on the Lake Chapala Society grounds.  Whether it is a natural product of the tree or whether its shape was helped along by some local artist, I can’t tell. There were no obvious marks indicating that it had been sculpted, but perhaps some of the limbs and body parts had been rounded off a bit, but very skillfully if so.

The wall built around the tree I believe I photographed in Chapala. It is not unusual to see walls and even roads constructed around trees here. There is a whole avenue of trees popping up out of the road bed in Ajijic as well on Aquilles Serdan.

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