Monday, January 2, 2012

skyward


the most unimaginable complexities
are so simply
and beautifully expressed
in trees

16 comments:

Sharon Longworth said...

Hi Steven, I don't often comment here, but every morning, I turn on the laptop while drinking my first cup of tea - and yours is almost always the blog at the top of my reading list, so I get to start each day with a gorgeous picture and some thought-provoking words.
I thought it was probably about time I said thank you!
Happy new year - I'm looking forward to a whole new year of images and words.

steven said...

hello sharon - thankyou for your very kind and generous and thoughtful comment. that's so cool!!! i don't expect visitors to comment because i really think of this place as just that a place to begin and then to see what comes of it . . . . however, i love to know that these words and pictures bring goodness into the world in some way shape or form because tha's what i wish . . . . thanks for the encouragement!!! steven

erin said...

steven, yes!

yesterday i went out into the cold winter rain and got into a bit of trouble on an icy hill. as i was going backwards down the hill and sideways, i would right the car and concentrate, and then lose that concentration. each tree darkened in the rain, lightened with the snow coating it, was so beautiful. when i managed my car to the bottom, i turned it around and parked. back up the hill i went, gasping at each tree, taking photographs. i never get tired of this. no two trees offer the same face, the same story, or the same lesson, never mind on which day:)

look at this weave! it would seem we might get lost in it, but perhaps we might be found.

xo
erin

Reya Mellicker said...

Indeed. I wrote about Father Sky today as well happy new year Steven!

The Weaver of Grass said...

I do love photographs of several trees with their branches intertwined Steven - they would be quite impossible to draw.

ellen abbott said...

oh the naked trees showing off.

R. Burnett Baker said...

a new way for me to look at naked trees. these words also perfectly describe your new header photo. It is a joy to look at!!

Rick

Ruth said...

Yes. Every individual leaf, branch, twig, like every moment, every person. Unimaginably complex, and beautifully expressed. Thank you.

I wish you such days as these, with increasing complexity in the depths and simplicity in the understanding, in 2012.

Bee said...

MINUS TWENTY NINE DEGREES???
The trees are not only beautiful, not only complex, but amazingly hardy and adaptable. As are Canadians.

Thanks for your new year's wishes, very elegantly expressed, and here's hoping the same happy imbalance to you and yours! Bee x

steven said...

yes erin! the weave of trees so like the weave of every detail of this detailed place. leading away and then back to where we begin at the bottom of hills. steven

steven said...

reya - the sky - i spend so much time watching it. i have to remember where my feet are! steven

steven said...

weaver - i love the weaving of branches - on trees, bushes, plants - i've tried to draw them but i'm convinced they aren't meant to be drawn. steven

steven said...

ahhhh ellen - all year 'round!!! steven

steven said...

rick the header photo is a leaf that died on a plant in this house, i sent it back outside so it could return to the place it came from and i took this photograph. thanks for your kind words!!! steven

steven said...

ruth - thankyou for your wish. the complexity is already apparent - the simple resolution of the complexity would be a deep blessing the likes of which i would welcome but am not expecting!!! steven

steven said...

yes bee . . . it's at minus twenty outside right now and dropping!!!! thanks for sending my wishes back my way - really thanks!!!! steven