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'

Friday, 31 July 2015

like tiny pods...

wintering plant in the Dromana Hills...

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Thursday, 30 July 2015

near beach boxes...

trees on the Dromana foreshore...

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Wednesday, 29 July 2015

colours of morning...

tree in my garden...

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Tuesday, 28 July 2015

like a purple haze...

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

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Monday, 27 July 2015

still wintering...

trees on the Dromana foreshore...

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NF Trees and Bushes

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Sunday, 26 July 2015

oddly shapely...

pine outside a home in Dromana...

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Saturday, 25 July 2015

greyed trunks and low greens...

trees and plants along the Safety Beach walkway...

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Friday, 24 July 2015

on the corner...

plant on the corner of a street at Balnarring..

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Thursday, 23 July 2015

so much peeling bark...

tree on the Dromana foreshore...

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Wednesday, 22 July 2015

berry-like buds...

plant on the Dromana foreshore walkway...

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Tuesday, 21 July 2015

looking to the sea...

view of plants on the Dromana foreshore...

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Monday, 20 July 2015

tree-lined...

trees along the walkway by Hillview Community Reserve, Dromana...

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Sunday, 19 July 2015

bank of tiny flowers...

plants on the Dromana foreshore walkway...

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Saturday, 18 July 2015

eucalyptus branches...

eucalyptus branches in various stages of changing colour in winter...

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Friday, 17 July 2015

a little stunted...

tree and plants on the Dromana foreshore...

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Thursday, 16 July 2015

many shadowy greens...

greens in the children's area of the Enchanted Adventure garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Wednesday, 15 July 2015

looking closely...

tree in my garden...

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Tuesday, 14 July 2015

shadowy winter colours...

winter view of trees on the Dromana foreshore...

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Monday, 13 July 2015

sheltering shade...

tree shade enjoyed in a Prahran park...

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Sunday, 12 July 2015

odd tree...

plants round a beach at Mornington...

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Saturday, 11 July 2015

slender wintering boughs...

wintering boughs in the Dromana Hills...

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Friday, 10 July 2015

a squiggly shrub...

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

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Thursday, 9 July 2015

winter foliage...

plants by the Nepean Highway as it passes Anthony's Nose...

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Wednesday, 8 July 2015

winter gold...

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

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Tuesday, 7 July 2015

some are leafless...

trees at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Monday, 6 July 2015

winter veggie...

winter veggie at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Sunday, 5 July 2015

waiting for life...

wintering tree at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Saturday, 4 July 2015

by a sign...

autumn trees on part of the Enchanted Adventure Garden property at Arthurs Seat...

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Friday, 3 July 2015

arched entrance...

trees and plants frame the arched entrance to Mornington Park at Mornington...

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Friday Greens

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Thursday, 2 July 2015

pine needles...

beauty of Mexican pine needles on the Dromana foreshore...

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Wednesday, 1 July 2015

framing the bell...

plants beautifully frame the bell outside the Dromana Fire Station in Dromana...

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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I want to learn from the TREES.

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Wildflowers are the visual spirit of freedom.

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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...
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