The blasted oak rose from the ground, leafless, with corpses hanging from it`s great branches, like a macbre christmas tree from hell.
The suns rays pierced the forest canopy, small beams arrowing to the floor, to illuminate the sparse ground hugging fauna with fairylights.
the willow trees long slender fingers swayed in the breeze like a dancers skirts.
fir trees abounded east to west, as far as the eye could see, a huge impenetrable wall that was no more inviting for it`s dark silent foundations.
I can see trees being quite important for your novel Steve and these are some good ideas. Couple of points - similes always include the word 'like' or 'as' , so what you have in 'impenetrable wall' and 'fairylights' are more in the realm of metaphor. However that's a small point. You need to be careful with words such as its, which when in the possessive are always spelled 'its' without an apostrophe. But I like what you are doing - the anthropomorphizing of trees is a very effective tactic.
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