Floating trees

OK, you caught me listening to some old Yes...but I swear it's Bruford on percussion! I've had a thing for floating trees ever since I saw Roger Dean create them in the early '70s, and my liking for hovering foliage was--if anything--refueled a couple decades later when Miyazaki animated a whole world around them in Castle in the Sky. (A very fun movie I try watch whenever the kids put it on. You have to ignore the female lead's name, Shita, an unfortunate transliteration from Japanese, pronounced shee-tah, although you could also shorten it to sh'tah. And then there's the name of the castle in the sky itself, Laputa, which my wife thought way too close to "la puta." In Spanish it means something like "the whore."--may or may not be to your liking. That said, a great animated film). I drew this a couple nights ago.  Sitting there with my nine year old son, sketching trees, trying to figure out where that wicked bright sun's beaming from so I can get the shading right.  I look over, ask, "What are you drawing?"  He shows me.  "Cool," I say.  "Skeletal clawing hands!"  Trees are boring.  I turn the page and start working on some evil hulking fellow that'll show up in one of my stories to beat the crap out of my protagonist.