Friday, October 23, 2015

Century Trees






Tho' working out in the sun would have been brutal,  even on very hot days this summer I was able to sit in the shade with welcome breezes while drawing great old trees and trying to catch the pattern of cast shadows and filtered light on the ground. 









Driving down a different cemetery lane yesterday I found this massive old maple already loosing it's leaves. Tomorrow they will blanket the ground between two hundred year old stones. Those gorgeously hot summer days are gone so I'll now have to bundle up but you know I will be visiting this old beauty again!







"Death, like birth is a secret of nature."  Marcus Aurelius

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." Emily Bronte

"I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen."  Frederick Franck





2 comments:

  1. Hi Phil. It's kelly. I love the top tree drawing. Really great. I just wrote a longer post but it disappeared. See if this goes through.

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  2. Sorry you lost the longer post. I would have loved to read it! Please keep looking and posting!

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