“You can live for years next to a big pine tree,
Honored to have so venerable a neighbor,
Even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you,
Dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.”
(-Denise Levertov)
Kelvingrove Café
4 days ago
12 comments:
The humble pine cone,
you regale him with royal colors!
Exquisite.
We have alot of huge pines in our garden. Their yellow needles are everywhere right now. I will take half of tomorrow off work, and then I plan to play with the needles (read: gardenwork)
A good metaphor for the awful avalanche of the stock market...
Exquisite watercolors Sue>
Oh, man, Carol--sad but true!
I do hear you about the pine needles, Britt-Arnhild! We always have them everywhere in NC! they are a lot of work.
Just one Pine Tree near us, but you would think there were hundreds going by the needles in our back garden, cones are one of my favourite things though, pretty paintings Sue.
Kathy.
I love all your colours oin these pines...my favourite being the second one, with it's warmth in the pine cone and just that extra bit of darkness right underneath the cone.
Ronell
Lovely pine cones and colors. we have small pine cones in abundance right now. Hope your trip is going smoothly.
Our companies gone. Visit was short but sweet. But left us very tired. How do you travel with out getting worn out??
Thanks, folks!
Cris, I do get worn out! I have to get up at 5am tomorrow to catch a flight to LA. I'll be tired--trust me! ;))
Lovely poem; wish I had written it! I have a small fascination with pine cones myself, and have tried, repeatedly, to paint them. Yours are just lovely.
such pretty pine cones!
I love all these different pine cones, but particularly the top one. At our house, it's acorns crashing on the roof and deck which wake us up in the fall...
Yes, I hear you all about the pine cones. Those and the squirrels--our constant companions in NC!
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