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'

Monday, 28 September 2015

a green-lined walkway...

plants along the foreshore walkway at Dromana beach...

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Sunday, 27 September 2015

a little orange...

spring plants at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Saturday, 26 September 2015

resilient shapes...

trees near the foreshore carpark at Rye...

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Friday, 25 September 2015

ghostly beach plant...

plant on Rosebud beach...

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Thursday, 24 September 2015

winding through...

walkway at Coolart, Somers...

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Wednesday, 23 September 2015

a messy flower?

flower at Coolart, Somers...

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Monday, 21 September 2015

within the carpark...

subdued tones in plants in the small foreshore carpark by Dromana pier...

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Sunday, 20 September 2015

song of blossoms...

spring blossoms at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Saturday, 19 September 2015

beach foliage...

plants along the foreshore walkway at Rye...

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Friday, 18 September 2015

spilling like a fountain...

plants in green spring mode at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Tuesday, 15 September 2015

blossom enchantment...

blossoms in my garden in the Dromana Hills...

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Monday, 14 September 2015

ivy...

ivy round a window at Mornington...

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Sunday, 13 September 2015

a blossoming tree...

blossoms emerging in my garden in the Dromana Hills...

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Saturday, 12 September 2015

restful greens...

trees on a property at Main Ridge...

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Thursday, 10 September 2015

close to tree surfing...

plants near the entrance to the tree surfing attraction
at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Tuesday, 8 September 2015

conifer colours...

conifer garden at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Sunday, 6 September 2015

gracing a wall...

plants and shadows grace a wall outside a home in a Mornington street...

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Friday, 4 September 2015

the sun...

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

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Thursday, 3 September 2015

sweet spring blossoms...

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

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Wednesday, 2 September 2015

becoming a flower...

a flower emerging in my garden...

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Tuesday, 1 September 2015

in palest pink...

flowers at Coolart, Somers...

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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.
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Friday Greens - NixPages

PRICKLY PEAR - *Opuntia*, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family *Cactaceae*, many known for their flavourful fruit ...
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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...
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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...
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Watery Songlines

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

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