A Few Thoughts on Trees, Spring and Dried Flowers
““I always feel so SATISFIED in the woods,” said the Story Girl dreamily, as we turned in under the low-swinging fir boughs. “Trees seem such friendly things.”
“They are the most friendly things in God’s good creation,” said Uncle Blair emphatically. “And it is so easy to live with them. To hold converse with pines, to whisper secrets with the poplars, to listen to the tales of old romance that beeches have to tell, to walk in eloquent silence with self-contained firs, is to learn what real companionship is. Besides, trees are the same all over the world. A beech tree on the slopes of the Pyrenees is just what a beech tree here in these Carlisle woods is; and there used to be an old pine hereabouts whose twin brother I was well acquainted with in a dell among the Apennines.””
The Golden Road – L.M. Montgomery
Do you also enjoy being in the woods? Lately I’ve often used an app to identify trees when I was in the forest and it’s so much fun to find out more about all them.
I remember last year we went to Italy for a day and cycled around and we saw so many unfamiliar trees; Giant lemon trees in people’s gardens and the forests were made up of these funny looking cloud-like trees. And when we traveled on to India I noticed there also so many different trees. Pomegranate trees, mango trees, dates trees. Plus the mystery that in India they have no real autumn season, and so sometimes you see a tree in autumn state, shedding its brown leaves all over the floor, yet a couple of days later it’s full of green leaves again! There is a lot to discover in this world!
I’m also reminded of a painting I made last year based on another part of the same book as above, talking about the wonders of spring and how children enjoy it fully without really realizing why.
Often, when I look at a beautiful flowering bush, I think about how soon the flowers will fade again and it makes me slightly sad and overwhelmed at the same time. Isn’t it better to just enjoy it as a child without thinking of time or tomorrow’s weather or next winter?
I want to try to be more aware of that the coming weeks.
Recently I made cards out of dried flowers. That is also one of those activities that reminds me of my childhood. I’d picked many wildflowers last spring and summer and dried them. Now I turned them into cute flower cards. There is something special about working with flowers or things you’ve found in nature. A sense of wonder and satisfaction.
Well, I hope you’re doing well and enjoying the beauties of nature at the moment :)
