Looking Up!!

Things are looking up in the She-shed. In fact, if you look up this is what you see.....

The sun is setting in the West,

and rising in the East.

The tree outside the window is now visible through the rafters.

I'm learning that it takes time to paint a tree. First you have to paint the trunk, then each layer of leaves one at a time. 

The highest layer of leaves are the most yellow because they receive the most sunlight. These leaves have no details as they are so high up that the detail can't really be seen from the ground.

The second layer of leaves are darker green because they are a bit shaded by the upper leaves, but being closer to the ground, these leaves have a visible central vein.

That's as far as I've gotten. There will be a final, darkest green layer of detailed leaves before all is said and done. Then on even the most dreary January day, I will be able to sit under a soothing summer sky in the shade of a happy tree!

Until tomorrow,

Shelli

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

 ~Martin Luther

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. 

~John Lubbock, “Recreation,” The Use of Life, 1894

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
~Joyce Kilmer, “Trees,” 1914