Couldn’t just this minute think of a better title. Here is one tree branch being subsumed by another. Quite a profound statement buried in the bush. But of submission and acceptance are human terms, so the natural equability of the situation is lost to them. Here is the wider picture:
And here is the bush:
And here is a shot of the trees here.
Two things are striking about these trunks. They’re very purple; more obvious in real life. And like the name suggests, they’re very evocative of the elephant. Wonderful.