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, 31 May 2015

flower and tree...

flowering plant and tree at Arthurs Seat...

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Saturday, 30 May 2015

on a rocky cliff...

plants huddled in and round the rock coastal face at Rye...

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Friday, 29 May 2015

soft yellow autumn rose...

autumn rose at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Thursday, 28 May 2015

reflections and dusky tones...

grasses and plants at the Hillview Community Reserve wetlands in Dromana...

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Wednesday, 27 May 2015

tall cactus with attitude...

tall cactus with attitude at Bittern...

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Tuesday, 26 May 2015

sculpture shapes...

a view of Montalto vineyards at Red Hill...

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Monday, 25 May 2015

dusky colours...

a late Autumn view of Seawinds at Arthurs Seat...

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Sunday, 24 May 2015

a bundle of greens in autumn light...

plants in a quiet Dromana Hills street...

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Saturday, 23 May 2015

among the trees...

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

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Friday, 22 May 2015

fringing the water...

plants round the water feature at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Thursday, 21 May 2015

multi-coloured...

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

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Wednesday, 20 May 2015

growing low in the sands...

plant on Rosebud beach...

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Tuesday, 19 May 2015

twisted and low...

trees on the Safety Beach foreshore...

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Monday, 18 May 2015

looking up...

looking up at the tree line at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Sunday, 17 May 2015

autumn vines...

autumn view of Montalto vineyards at Red Hill...

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Saturday, 16 May 2015

an autumn yellow...

tree at Rosebud...

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Friday, 15 May 2015

reds of autumn...

autumn leaves in the Dromana Hills...

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Thursday, 14 May 2015

in afternoon light...

eerie late afternoon lighting in the Dromana Hills...

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Labels: Autumn, Dromana Hills, trees, view

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

leafy shelter...

plants create a leafy shelter round a seat in the gardens of Coolart at Somers...

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Labels: Coolart, plants, seat, shadows, Somers

Tuesday, 12 May 2015

spreading cactus...

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

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Monday, 11 May 2015

agapanthus charm...

agapanthus in my garden...

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Labels: agapanthus, Dromana Hills, garden, macro

Sunday, 10 May 2015

a cute tree...

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

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Labels: Arthurs Seat, Enchanted Adventure Garden, plant, pot, shadows

Saturday, 9 May 2015

street of greens...

plants along a quiet street in the Dromana Hills...

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Labels: Dromana Hills, greens, plants, streetscape

Friday, 8 May 2015

unique autumn mode...

tree in unusual autumn mode at Safety Beach...

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Thursday, 7 May 2015

a patch of autumn colours...

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

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Labels: Arthurs Seat, Enchanted Adventure Garden, pines, plants

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

cultivated design...

plants design their art on the hillsides at Montalto vineyards, Red Hill...

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Tuesday, 5 May 2015

orange and golds framed in greens...

an autumn view of trees at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Monday, 4 May 2015

like lavender...

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

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Sunday, 3 May 2015

one tree has yellow leaves...

plants in autumn mode at Rosebud...

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Saturday, 2 May 2015

circling a tree trunk...

plants round a tree in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne...

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Friday, 1 May 2015

at Melbourne Conservatory...

a display of autumn plants at Melbourne Conservatory in the Fitzroy Gardens......

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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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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...
6 years ago

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