An uncanny likeness of the Virgin Mary formed into the bark of a Scarborough tree has left dumbfounded residents wondering if their neighbourhood has been divinely blessed.
Some have even been brought to tears by the surreal Mary in the tree.
“I don’t know why it’s there, but I think it’s a blessing,” said Christopher Moreau, 47, who discovered the tree-bound Mary last week. “It raises the hair on your neck, it gives you chills.”
It was after work and Moreau had just opened a beer in the backyard of his Danforth and Birchmount Rds.-area home when he noticed the familiar image of the Virgin, her arms outstretched, in his neighbour’s tree.
I’m sure that there are those who will tell me that it’s the devil blinding my eyes, but even though I know what she’s suppsoed to look like from the statues I’m still not seeing the Virgin Mary in the tree.
Heck, I even went looking for a bigger picture (and found one here) just in case my failing eyes were missing something.
… and I still only see the stub of a broken branch and some stained bark.
Do you suppose if I drink beer and star at it long enough I’ll see something to?
Wouldn’t be that we are programmed by evolution to recognize human faces and figures eh?
Naw, must be the super-magical eternal version mother of god who appears in the bark of a tree in Toronto.
I gotta get some of that beer though…