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'

Thursday, 30 April 2015

vineyard countryside...

a view of the Montalto vineyard countryside at Red Hill...

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Labels: Montalto, Red Hill, view, vineyard

Wednesday, 29 April 2015

like a white anemone...

autumn flower in my garden...

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Labels: Dromana Hills, flower, macro

Tuesday, 28 April 2015

a view of vines and trees...

a view of vines at trees at Montalto, Red Hill...

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Monday, 27 April 2015

pumpkins on the way...

pumpkins at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Labels: Arthurs Seat, Enchanted Adventure Garden, macro, pumpkins, shadows

Sunday, 26 April 2015

glory of a hydrangea...

hydrangea in my garden...

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Labels: Dromana Hills, garden, hydrangea, macro

Saturday, 25 April 2015

magic of autumn...

an autumn view of the Enchanted Adventure Garden at Arthurs Seat...

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Friday, 24 April 2015

a manicured small hedge in autumn...

an autumn view of the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Friday Greens

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Thursday, 23 April 2015

in a network of trees...

trees and plants along the foreshore walkway at Safety Beach...

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Labels: foreshore, plants, Safety Beach, shadows, trees, walkway

Wednesday, 22 April 2015

changing colour...

autumn plants round an entrance to units at Balnarring...

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Labels: Autumn, Balnarring, driveway, plants

Tuesday, 21 April 2015

plants with a view...

plants on the Dromana foreshore...

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Labels: Dromana, foreshore, plants, tree, view

Monday, 20 April 2015

like cylindrical bells...

flowers at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Sunday, 19 April 2015

some autumn golds...

view of autumn plants round a driveway at Balnarring...

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Saturday, 18 April 2015

low and tall greens and a touch of colour...

plants at Ashcombe Maze, Shoreham...

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Friday Greens

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Labels: Ashcombe Maze, Friday Greens, plants, Shoreham

Friday, 17 April 2015

various shades of green...

trees on the Dromana foreshore...

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Thursday, 16 April 2015

autumn yellows...

autumn tree at Red Hill...

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Wednesday, 15 April 2015

white flowers and colourful long leaves...

plant in my neighbour's garden...

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Labels: Dromana Hills, plant

Tuesday, 14 April 2015

like a soft lilac bristle...

autumn flower at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Labels: Arthurs Seat, Enchanted Adventure Garden, flower, macro

Monday, 13 April 2015

an autumn yellow...

autumn flower at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Floral Friday Fotos

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Labels: Arthurs Seat, Autumn, Enchanted Adventure Garden, Floral Friday Fotos, flower, macro

Sunday, 12 April 2015

shedding the bark...

detail of a tree trunk on the Rosebud foreshore...

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Labels: bark, foreshore, macro, Rosebud, tree, tree trunk

Saturday, 11 April 2015

creeper...

creeper on a tree trunk on the Dromana foreshore...

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Labels: creeper, Dromana, foreshore, macro, tree, tree trunk

Friday, 10 April 2015

in the autumn corner...

an autumn view of plants at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Friday Greens

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Labels: Arthurs Seat, Autumn, Enchanted Adventure Garden, Friday Greens, plants, tree

Thursday, 9 April 2015

thin beauty...

trees at Dromana beach in autumn light...

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Labels: Autumn, beach, Dromana, trees

Wednesday, 8 April 2015

a tall, tall cactus...

cactus at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Tuesday, 7 April 2015

shapely beauty in the mist...

tree at the front of my school...

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Labels: Cranbourne, mist, school, tree

Monday, 6 April 2015

in the grey garden...

autumn plants in the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Sunday, 5 April 2015

tiny curls...

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

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Saturday, 4 April 2015

was an agapanthus flower...

faded agapanthus in my garden...

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Labels: agapanthus, Dromana Hills, flower, macro

Friday, 3 April 2015

pink tones and shadows...

oleander flower in my garden...

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Floral Friday Fotos

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Thursday, 2 April 2015

little dashes of clumped colour...

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

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Wednesday, 1 April 2015

like two trunks...

detail of a tree trunk on the foreshore walkway by Dromana beach...

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Gemma Wiseman aka Pamela Adams: I've been a creative writer ever since I was old enough to hold a pen. These days, it's the keyboard and I, every morning with coffee, and we spill out poetic wonders. Later in the day, maybe there is some time to indulge in other genres...usually a school holiday treat...Have I been published ...??? in British school activity books, my notes+creative suggestions accompanying videos for schools (also British+an annual U.S. collection of poetry...Have I been interviewed?...online by a writer in Ontario, now living in BC and a writing group in New York... I even wrote a play - 'Riff Raff', in tandem with another Victorian high school teacher. The play toured several schools in Queensland...That teacher now writes one act plays annually. Have I entered competitions?...Yes...+ won a Hanimax camera plus accessories when I was 12... Do I seek untold fame and fortune? No... I just would like to be noticed and valued, making a difference to someone's life; someone who may have just stumbled across my work... Currently I am retired and guide a U3A writing group plus dabble in encouraging teenagers to explore their inner selves through their writing. P.S. I believe in miracles.

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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

A Thought or Two...

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.
- Gemma Wiseman

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Mexican pine (1) agapanthus (7) autumn leaves (18) banksia (2) bark (3) blossoms (20) bonsai (1) bottlebrush (2) boughs (6) branch (1) branches (9) bushland (2) cactus (7) cherry trees (1) climbing roses (1) conifer (1) creeper (2) daffodils (2) dead fruit tree (1) driftwood (2) eucalyptus (9) fern (2) fishbone fern (1) flower (58) flowers (60) foliage (7) fungi (4) garden (39) grape vines (9) grass (2) grasses (41) grey plant (3) hedge maze (2) hydrangea (4) iris (2) ivy (4) large flower (1) lavender (2) leaf (5) leaves (26) lemon tree (1) liquidamber (4) little tree (1) love-in-a-mist (1) macro (155) magnolia (1) mangroves (6) native hibiscus (2) new leaves (2) oleander (5) orange (2) orchard (1) pale green leaves (1) palm (6) palms (7) paperbark tree (2) pine (3) pine cones (1) pine tree (3) pines (7) pink blossoms (3) plant (41) plants (159) poplars (1) red flowering gum (1) red leaves (1) rose (10) roses (1) topiary (9) tree (124) tree stumps (1) tree tops (2) tree trunk (18) tree trunks (2) trees (178) trunk (2) vegetable (2) vegetable garden (2) weeping willow (1) wild plant (2) wildflower (5) willow (1) wintering trees (6) yellow leaves (3)

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SOME OF MY OTHER BLOGS

MORNINGTON PENINSULA DAILY

may the wings of peace..........dona nobis pacem - For many years now I have been involved in Blog for Peace... It is a story that must never end... (And read Mimi's wonderful celebration of being who she i...
5 years ago
Fur and Wings

breeding time... - wetlands breeding time in the Coolart wetlands, Somers...
5 years ago
Black and White Songlines

early morning spaces... - walkway by Safety Beach...
5 years ago
Watery Songlines

winter blues... - wintry blue waters round Inverloch pier...
5 years ago
Macro Songlines

like a touch of whimsy... - plant growing at Dromana beach...
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