Thanks, all. John, not the Land of Oz, just my local hills. It's an area called Great Bear, though we've not had bears around here for a very long time.
Indeed, I knew that of course. But your tree images are so evocative that they remind me of this song by Stan Rogers, called Giant. It's mythical and haunting, referencing the Druids. He conjures a fire in the midst of a forest like your trees!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTMENKx3vFULyrics, by Stan Rogers. He died June 2, 1983, in plane crash.
'Twas the same ancient fever in the Isles of the Blest
That our fathers brought with them when they "went West"
It's the blood of the Druids that never will rest
The giant will rise with the moon'
