The trees in the first picture are in Hamilton, Ohio. They have a couple of contests a year there. It's a fun field to fly at. Those trees are just the perfect depth. You can usually comfortably fly inside them, but they ARE close enough that you can also fly behind them. And chases around the trees for the last streamer are a real hoot.

And yes, sometimes guys hang 'em in the trees. At one point at the last contest, there were 3 planes hanging up there. They all came down, and I think 2 of them flew again that day. (and, fwiw, the red plane on the left is me. It's not in the tree, but I'm running from the guy on the right, and getting as close to the trees as I can).

The second picture is my home field in Maryland, and that IS my wing fluttering down after someone cleaned it off my fuse. The power lines in the picture are a lot farther away than it looks, well out of the way.