Tree haircut

There's a psychological term for the human tendency to impute faces into visual patterns -- but I can't be bothered to look it up.

At our church there's a tree that had its branches lopped, because it was always shedding leaves on the covered walkway:  some people wanted it cut down, and other people wanted it kept -- so the compromise was to lop its branches.

The tree survived -- but now it was a shaggy sprouting at the top.  To me, it looked like the tree had grown hair:

--GG