Your art is all stunning….by far I like "Flora and Fauna” and truly all of them give away the joy of color. I really like the photographic ones and the alternative media use with the mosaic glass technique.
Your story about the youth in the woods is beautiful. I was a city girl who lived by the sea so I have different memories…..but reading your childhood past of life in the forest wow ….so priceless. I love nature as well.
thank you so much.. That's one of my favs too, because it is vibrant, and alive! The sea, and the forest two very different settings, both contain their own Magic, and seen through the eyes of a child, bring about Wonder, that we tend to lose or ignore as an adult.
Thank you so much for the entire article and all the breathtaking trees and beautiful art.
When I was a child I, too, spent many hours in the woods with the trees. There was nothing like lying in a pine forest on the thick bed of old needles listening to the wind blow through the pines. And the smell!
I love all trees. Every kind. Large and small. Alive or dead. I used to think if I were from another planet and had never seen or known anything on earth, I would think trees were the most incredible lifeform of all.
The edge of a leaf is more perfect and precise than the most precision manmade instrument hands down.
Inside a tree, the water pulled up from the roots accelerates in speed molecule by molecule one mile an hour for every foot the tree is tall. So at the top of a sixty foot tree, the water is moving sixty miles an hour. Amazing.
Yes.the pine forests are truly special, and the smell, I love camping in these forests the best. the music of the forests, the winds that blow the trees, and their graceful dance, the flutter of the leaves, or the needles. YOU TOO!!! yes all the trees, and even as they are dead and decaying, They are an art work in the making. Petrified wood, desert wood, and even drift wood.
Very cool the precision of the leaves, nice description!!!
I did not know about the way the tree brings the water up to the top, that is fascinating.. and where is their Heart? Heart = Earth, Thank you so much for sharing!!!
When I spoke of precision leaf edges, I watched a docu where they magnified the edges of common tree leaves to greater and greater magnification while doing the same with the most precision cutting blades made by man. As the magnification grew, the cutting blades showed nasty jagged rough edges while no matter how great the magnification of the leaves their edges were perfection. It's mind boggling.
Mondrian said his abstractions were of trees. I'm no great fan of his, but once I read that I understood his work better.
Thanks again for bringing this marvelous subject to the fore.
our technology will never get the better of Nature, but dang, if we aren't trying. Everything we do to try and outwit nature, becomes destructive. thank you for coming by and sharing!
Haha, yes!! reminds me of how I could be in the woods, and no one could see me but I could see them. I didn't have a treehouse, but I did attempt to make plenty of forts out of fallen branches string and vines. Once as I was exploring in the woods, and went much farther away from my own yard I found a large depression in the ground. Next to it was a circular stone structure which I figured out was once a well. there were stone steps leading down into the large depression in the ground and in the ground I found broken antique clay pots and dishes, along with those, I found antique blue bottles. It was quite an exciting find for me, and imagined that the first settlers had lived there, wondered what the land had been like back in their time. Thank you too for the compliments!!
WOWOWOW what an amazing story. Hannah, you are blessed to have Garth in your life for that time and so glad that your silly bird was literally sent home to you
I also lived in NE CT, Woodstock Valley, on a little lake called Witches wood, in the forest of course, LOL. I loved CT. So many beautiful forests, and stones, and rolling hills. Did you know of Yale Forest?
Thank you so much for the compliments, Truly appreciate it!
That is an incredible story about Garth, and your bird, and I KNOW these things happen. I have been slowly writing a story about the big Oak in my yard now.. The shape it took after I buried my dog under it. You will believe it when you see it.. LOL. Hopefully I will post it soon.
I too, love to sit under the big oak and quietly talk to her. Her canopy stretches out over our drive and house, and when storms come in I wish her well, and strength, and ask too that she protect our home...
We're all family!! IN some way, especially when we come together to relate what we are discovering about this world, and help each other! So glad to hear the art work helps. Yea, it helps me too, to draw (no pun intended) my attention away from the show, and give me back some peace of mind. To focus on what is beautiful! sorry about your pooch! It's especially hard when they die from a disease that never should have happened, when they suffered.
picture #7 reminds me of a quilt. I could probably make a quilt like that and applique the trees on.
Your artistry is excellent. I love trees too.
AMAZING ARTWORK!
Beautiful Story
🌳🌳🌳= 💯💗 💞❣️
Thank you so much!!
Your art is all stunning….by far I like "Flora and Fauna” and truly all of them give away the joy of color. I really like the photographic ones and the alternative media use with the mosaic glass technique.
Your story about the youth in the woods is beautiful. I was a city girl who lived by the sea so I have different memories…..but reading your childhood past of life in the forest wow ….so priceless. I love nature as well.
thank you so much.. That's one of my favs too, because it is vibrant, and alive! The sea, and the forest two very different settings, both contain their own Magic, and seen through the eyes of a child, bring about Wonder, that we tend to lose or ignore as an adult.
I agree. I should paint more about the sea but I never adventured there. I think your substack gallery is very inspiring and motivational.
Thank you!!! I hope to post more about my art soon!! thank you for your support.
Thank you so much for the entire article and all the breathtaking trees and beautiful art.
When I was a child I, too, spent many hours in the woods with the trees. There was nothing like lying in a pine forest on the thick bed of old needles listening to the wind blow through the pines. And the smell!
I love all trees. Every kind. Large and small. Alive or dead. I used to think if I were from another planet and had never seen or known anything on earth, I would think trees were the most incredible lifeform of all.
The edge of a leaf is more perfect and precise than the most precision manmade instrument hands down.
Inside a tree, the water pulled up from the roots accelerates in speed molecule by molecule one mile an hour for every foot the tree is tall. So at the top of a sixty foot tree, the water is moving sixty miles an hour. Amazing.
God Bless.
Yes.the pine forests are truly special, and the smell, I love camping in these forests the best. the music of the forests, the winds that blow the trees, and their graceful dance, the flutter of the leaves, or the needles. YOU TOO!!! yes all the trees, and even as they are dead and decaying, They are an art work in the making. Petrified wood, desert wood, and even drift wood.
Very cool the precision of the leaves, nice description!!!
I did not know about the way the tree brings the water up to the top, that is fascinating.. and where is their Heart? Heart = Earth, Thank you so much for sharing!!!
When I spoke of precision leaf edges, I watched a docu where they magnified the edges of common tree leaves to greater and greater magnification while doing the same with the most precision cutting blades made by man. As the magnification grew, the cutting blades showed nasty jagged rough edges while no matter how great the magnification of the leaves their edges were perfection. It's mind boggling.
Mondrian said his abstractions were of trees. I'm no great fan of his, but once I read that I understood his work better.
Thanks again for bringing this marvelous subject to the fore.
our technology will never get the better of Nature, but dang, if we aren't trying. Everything we do to try and outwit nature, becomes destructive. thank you for coming by and sharing!
you are extremely talented! I loved treehouses growing up, climbing and hiding in avocado trees, spying on everyone 😻
Haha, yes!! reminds me of how I could be in the woods, and no one could see me but I could see them. I didn't have a treehouse, but I did attempt to make plenty of forts out of fallen branches string and vines. Once as I was exploring in the woods, and went much farther away from my own yard I found a large depression in the ground. Next to it was a circular stone structure which I figured out was once a well. there were stone steps leading down into the large depression in the ground and in the ground I found broken antique clay pots and dishes, along with those, I found antique blue bottles. It was quite an exciting find for me, and imagined that the first settlers had lived there, wondered what the land had been like back in their time. Thank you too for the compliments!!
OH MYYYYY!!
You are my new favourite artist. WOW!!
I'm blown away!!!
Hugs to you my sister artist!!! thank you!
also thank you SOOOO very much for the restack!!
WOWOWOW what an amazing story. Hannah, you are blessed to have Garth in your life for that time and so glad that your silly bird was literally sent home to you
I also lived in NE CT, Woodstock Valley, on a little lake called Witches wood, in the forest of course, LOL. I loved CT. So many beautiful forests, and stones, and rolling hills. Did you know of Yale Forest?
Thank you so much for the compliments, Truly appreciate it!
That is an incredible story about Garth, and your bird, and I KNOW these things happen. I have been slowly writing a story about the big Oak in my yard now.. The shape it took after I buried my dog under it. You will believe it when you see it.. LOL. Hopefully I will post it soon.
I too, love to sit under the big oak and quietly talk to her. Her canopy stretches out over our drive and house, and when storms come in I wish her well, and strength, and ask too that she protect our home...
We're all family!! IN some way, especially when we come together to relate what we are discovering about this world, and help each other! So glad to hear the art work helps. Yea, it helps me too, to draw (no pun intended) my attention away from the show, and give me back some peace of mind. To focus on what is beautiful! sorry about your pooch! It's especially hard when they die from a disease that never should have happened, when they suffered.