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'

Saturday, 22 August 2015

an echo of flowers...

flowers reflecting in a water feature in the gardens of Coolart at Somers...

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Thursday, 20 August 2015

reeds in the wetlands...

reedy grasses at the Hillview Community Reserve wetlands in Dromana...

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Thursday, 4 June 2015

pale fringe of tall grasses...

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

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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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Friday, 22 May 2015

fringing the water...

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

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Thursday, 29 January 2015

reflecting on greens...

enchanting greens round a little pond on a farm at Red Hill...

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Saturday, 4 October 2014

framed in spring leaves...

Seawinds pond feature framed in spring leaves...

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Thursday, 18 September 2014

wetlands stillness...

touches of grasses and reflections at Coolart wetlands, Somers...

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Sunday, 27 July 2014

etchings on water...

leafless trees etch fine reflections in a pond in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne...

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Monday, 14 July 2014

wetland colours...

view of the small Hillview Community Reserve wetlands in Dromana...

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Saturday, 7 June 2014

reflections of trees and grasses...

a view of Hillview Community Reserve wetlands, Dromana...

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Friday, 6 June 2014

worlds overturned...

reflections at Hillview Community Reserve, Dromana...

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Thursday, 5 June 2014

beauty of grasses...

wetland grasses at the Hillview Community Reserve, Dromana...

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Tuesday, 3 June 2014

greens and reflections...

a view of a water feature at the Enchanted Maze Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Wednesday, 7 May 2014

framed in autumn...

an autumn landscape at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Tuesday, 6 May 2014

more autumn reflections...

autumn reflections in a pond at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Monday, 5 May 2014

autumn reflections...

autumn reflections at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Thursday, 1 May 2014

delicate autumn greens...

many delicate autumn greens at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Monday, 28 April 2014

turning leaves...

autumn view of Seawinds at Arthurs Seat...

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Thursday, 20 March 2014

rain puddle shapes...

reflections in a puddle on the Safety Beach foreshore after heavy rain...

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Gemma Mira 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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FLORAL FRIDAY FOTOS

FFF765 - SERRURIA - *Serruria* 'Pretty n Pink' (a hybrid of* Serruria florida x rosea*), a compact evergreen shrub from the *Proteaceae* family endemic in South Africa. It is ...
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Friday Greens - NixPages

CLIVIA - *Clivia* is a genus of monocot flowering plants native to southern Africa. They are from the family *Amaryllidaceae*, subfamily *Amaryllidoideae*. Common n...
1 year ago
Trees and Bushes - NF World Bits and Pieces

Roe deer and Common Blackbird - click image to enlarge Roe Deer The female in teh first image was injured. Her hind leg was useless and she walked on three legs. I did not see any wou...
9 years ago

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...
6 years ago
Fur and Wings

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

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

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

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

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