Ominously

It looks like a giant wooden spear piercing the ground.

Touchy-feely

Images can evoke moods.  The way an image is finished in post-processing can evoke a mood.  Today I'm posting three post-processed images and the original image with no processing except for cropping.  

Which one do you like best and why?

Here is image #2:

Here is image #3:

Here is the original image that has only been cropped:

Coarsely

More of Nature's art. 

Explosively

Nature's art.  I don't know what brought this tree down, but I'm sure it must have been loud.

Shelly

We celebrated the first day of Spring by going for a walk at Crosby Farm Regional Park.  I found this itty-bitty shell and set it on one of the numerous dead trees near the Mississippi River as a backdrop for my picture.