Springing forward, he caught a nearby thin trunk, spun himself around, then lifted his feet as if to take flight.
The tree's long thin trunk and spreading branches were beautifully detailed.
Morning was coming, and as she stood up, she saw the thin white trunks of the birch trees glowing in the mist.
Many have multiple thin trunks growing up from the ground - they've obviously been coppiced in the past.
It is about 12 meters high, with a thin gray trunk and occasional creamy white flowers.
Seen between one and seven metres tall, it may be identified by the thin, prickly trunk, 5 to 15 cm wide.
The sun was low now, and the thin trunk threw a long shadow obliquely across the path.
Around the tree was a circular wooden bench way too big for the thin trunk.
The trees grew quite tall, with thin but sturdy sand-colored trunks.
If, among the thick stand of thin trunks, there were a few more shadows than usual, they seemed only bushes in early leaf.