Art of Trees and Plants

“You know why trees smell the way they do?” Murphy asked, looking up from her hammering. “Sap?” Logan guessed. “Chlorophyll?” Murphy shook her head. “Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred years’ worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach earth. That’s why trees smell so beautiful and old.” ~ By Frances O’Roark Dowell in 'Where I’d like to be'

Sunday, 30 November 2014

touches of gold...

pine by the Dromana foreshore walkway...

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Saturday, 29 November 2014

a touch of tiger...

flower at Ashcombe Maze, Shoreham...

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Friday, 28 November 2014

blossom radiance...

spring blossoms in my garden...

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Thursday, 27 November 2014

celebrating spring in pink...

flower in my neighbour's garden...

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Wednesday, 26 November 2014

fern and shadows...

fishbone fern in my garden...

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Tuesday, 25 November 2014

crimson curls...

flower in my garden...

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Monday, 24 November 2014

like striped leaves...

plant growing near Dromana beach...

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Sunday, 23 November 2014

in a world of greens...

view of the gardens at the Enchanted Adventure Garden at Arthurs Seat...

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Saturday, 22 November 2014

a purply red...

plant at the Enchanted Adventure Garden at Arthurs Seat...

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Friday, 21 November 2014

tall tall grasses...

grassy plant in the Dromana Hub carpark...

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Thursday, 20 November 2014

palms...

palms in Dromana...

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Wednesday, 19 November 2014

so many trees...

trees at Ashcombe Maze, Shoreham...

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Tuesday, 18 November 2014

pretty little white ones...

flowers at Ashcombe Maze, Shoreham

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Monday, 17 November 2014

flowering cactus...

This cactus is growing at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...
It has never flowered in its two year life span...
An excited gardener, on Monday 3.11.14, pointed out to me the tiny flowers...
They need a macro shot for clear visibility...

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Sunday, 16 November 2014

a little ghostly...

plants along the foreshore walkway at Rye...

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Saturday, 15 November 2014

Watts Cottage in a frame of leaves...

plants frame heritage listed Watts Cottage at Sorrento...

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Friday, 14 November 2014

a little lavender...

some lavender at the Ashcombe Maze and Lavender Garden at Shoreham...

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Thursday, 13 November 2014

sweeping round...

view of low growing plants at Point Nepean on the southern tip of the Mornington Peninsula...

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Wednesday, 12 November 2014

feathery...

an unusual tree near Rye beach...

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Tuesday, 11 November 2014

jostling for space...

a mass of pretty spring flowers...

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Monday, 10 November 2014

very very delicate and small...

tiniest flowers and still beautiful...

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Sunday, 9 November 2014

deeep deep inside the white fluff...

wildflowers can be so enchanting...

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Saturday, 8 November 2014

green display...

plants near the entrance of the Dromana Hub shopping centre...

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Friday, 7 November 2014

Antipodes...

plants grace the entrance to the Antipodes Bookshop and Gallery at Sorrento...

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Thursday, 6 November 2014

foreshore greens...

plants along the foreshore walkway at Rye...

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Wednesday, 5 November 2014

wilflower identity...

macro of a wildflower near Rosebud beach...

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Tuesday, 4 November 2014

wind-blown...

plants on the coastal walkway at Rye...

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Monday, 3 November 2014

greens on pink...

plants and a pink house at Sorrento...

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Sunday, 2 November 2014

whites of spring...

spring growth on my neighbour's plant...

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Saturday, 1 November 2014

greens and greys...

greens by a water feature at Cranbourne Botanical Gardens...

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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening Heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

E. M. Forster

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

A. A. Milne

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Henri Matisse

I want to learn from the TREES.
I want to nourish my roots. Nourish the deepest, most essential parts of myself.
Spiritually, emotionally and physically.
I want to go out on some limbs.
I want to bloom where I'm planted.
I want to weather the seasons.
I want to provide a nesting place for those I love.
I want to bend without breaking.
I want to learn from the TREES.

- Adrienne - My Memory Art

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Wildflowers are the visual spirit of freedom.

- Gemma Wiseman

Gardening involves labour and a liberal dose of luck, dependent on the mood swings of Nature's precocious weather child.
The health of the spirit depends on the weather child within...
Until some kind of Armageddon, when our precious scaffolding melts and natural senses cave! Like a dark haunting of ...maybe!
It's all about the passing of time, with lots of colour along the way.
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Fur and Wings

breeding time... - wetlands breeding time in the Coolart wetlands, Somers...
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