Art in Nature
This may just be my favorite post I’ll have made so far! I was so excited to be able to incorporate art-based assignments into my blog as it’s something I’m quite passionate about. So, that being said, in today’s post you’ll be able to see a nice palette of my artistic abilities, some good, some not great (my drawing skills in particular tend to be quite sub par…) Let’s start with something I’m a little bit more confident about: poetry. This is an untitled piece I came up with the other day and I hope you enjoy it, and that it allows you to place yourself in my area the way I feel when I am in it.
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It’s the loudest silence you’ll ever hear
No words
No cars, no metal
There’s nothing to distract from what you are
Where you’re going
There’s no then and later only now and now and now
The rustles bring you to the present
The breezes keep you there
It’s red and yellow then brown and brown and brown
It’s blue it’s white it’s gray, gray, gray
And yet beautiful
You still want to capture it
The way the space looks how you’re feeling
Tuck it away so it’s yours forever
So no other eyes see the beauty you’ve seen
Your beauty
And yet you want to share it
You want them to see this beauty that you have seen
And everyone to hear the silence be so loud
To know no industry
To see only earth
To touch and learn and love what you love
To help and heal
To care for this thing that is truly ours
This only being
This entity we take for granted in our selfish human way
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For your next taste of my artistic ability, enjoy this picture of my event map! An extremely creative way of interpreting place and the things about that place that mean something to you…
Again, drawing skills may not be the best, but I hope it allows you to see the kind of things that drew me to my spot.
Moving on, let’s talk a little bit about the actually phenology of my spot since that’s what this blog is all about! In general, there haven’t been a whole lot of changes from my last visit. More leaves have made their way to the ground, which has made part of my trip there a bit more treacherous in the slip-and-fall department. Just as last time, we’ve been getting quite a bit of precipitation which has made some f the surrounding area quite saturated.
In terms of wildlife, I actually managed to catch a glimpse of a cardinal, which happens to be my favorite bird! He (red feathered and all) was perched for a short period in the eastern white pine that stands closest to the lake on my spot. I actually was able to identify his call before I saw him, though they are pretty hard to miss.
That’s all I have for you today boys and girls, enjoy the rest of this week and fingers crossed that some snow comes soon!
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