How do you see that tree? It’s [blue]? Well then, make it [blue], the best [blue] on your palette. –Reduction of Paul Gaugin’s advice to his student Paul Sérusier [The actual quote below] This has been the most rainy and dismal winter I’ve experienced yet. I was certain I would lose my mind if I … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | Blue
Beauty remains in nature, sun, freedom and yourself. If you just look for it, you discover yourself and God, you will stand out. –Anne Frank My guys and I rediscovered the treasures above in the backyard a windy afternoon two weeks ago. The top photo features the remains of a log that once held a … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | Beauty Remains
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape— the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. ~Andrew Wyeth I had a different tree love post in mind for today, but when my friend Christine B. sent (via message) two tree watercolors … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | Loved Thrice
Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness. –Mary Oliver, from “Snowy Night,” What Do We Know I’m taking a very short break from grading because it’s time for #ThursdayTreeLove, and I can’t resist sharing one of the … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | Naked Tree and First Snow
One of the trees I enjoy watching from season to season is the dogwood that sits in the middle of the tree-filled field in the center of “my part” of campus. Year after year, I gaze out my window and watch the tree transform–from summer to autumn, winter to spring. The tree is gorgeous in … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | A Study in Contrast
Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting, and Autumn a mosaic of them all. –Stanley Horowitz– About the image: The photo was shot in Nashville, Tennessee at the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere on a perfect autumn day. One day, I’ll have to share the animals I captured. 🙂 I am joining Parul … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | Mosaic of Seasons
Now purple tints are all around; The sky is blue and mellow; And e’en the grasses turn the ground From modest green to yellow. Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Merry Autumn” During my son’s last dental visit, I had enough wait time to notice and appreciate a piece of art I hadn’t … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | An Autumn Walk Through the Woods
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky. –Kahlil Gibran For today’s tree love, I’m sharing photos that are [somewhat] equal parts sky and tree. I love trees, yes, but I also love the sky. There’s something about a tree-lined sky that always reels me in, especially when the clouds are showing out. You’ve … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | …with a Bit of Sky Love
There is good in life every day. Take a few minutes to distract yourself from your concerns– long enough to draw strength from a tree… –Pamela Owens Renfro, “Reach for the Good” August has been a strange month so far. I have felt “out of sorts” most days and have been so swamped with “things … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | Knot So Beautiful
Why does the willow weep? What secrets does she keep? –Ruth Elaine Schram As I thought about a photograph for this week’s Thursday Tree Love, the weeping willow I captured five years ago [while roaming the neighborhood] insisted on my taking note of its character. Though the tree seems weak with its weepy, leafy branches, … Continue reading #ThursdayTreeLove | Why Does the Willow Weep?
