"All art is an imitation of nature." -
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Come along in Red Canoe as she explores the quiet backwater of Ohio's State Parks and the scenic streams and rivers of the Midwest. Discover the beauty hidden beyond the water's edge, quietly waiting, past access points, often only inches deep!
Come browse my photography site, Nature Remains: nothing but a photograph, for full-page slide shows of my favorite images and opportunities to purchase them.
In Spring of 2008, I began the study of 2 vernal pools on my property as part of the Ohio Vernal Pool Partnership monitoring program.
My 2008 journal includes the first photos and findings, as I studied this fascinating wetland area just a few steps beyond my backdoor...
2009 photos and findings,
2010,... again!
Now, 4 years later, another season is just days away!
Travel beyond the Midwest has taken me to some beautiful places. Usually off the beaten track, these places are WILD!
Acadia National Park
New River Nature Festival
Olympic National Park
Pictured Rocks and the UP
Voyageurs National Park
(click on the text above each photo for a quick get-away)
A regularly appearing feature, "Have you seen..." takes a closer, more patient look at things usually not seen in a flattering light.
Take a look!
Each spring, as winter lessens its grip and days warm with the first fragrant breezes of a new season, we collect sap from our Sugar Maples and produce just enough syrup for ourselves for the coming year.
The progress of this year's backyard endeavor is illustrated here.
Summer 2008, the tiny jewel of the avian world, a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, nested just feet from my front door. Pictures of her nest and the changing lives within are collected in this journal.
From life the size of a pea....
Cats that come to stay
(click on the text above each photo for stories in these collections)
13 comments:
That is fascinating! Must be a borer of some sort, but it looks like duplicate Native American carvings. What a good eye you have!
Wow! This is so interesting! Makes me want to go out and look for something like this!!!
Great Post Nina!!
That's just one of the reasons we like your blog so much. You stop and find miraculous things the rest of us would overlook. Great post.
I hate to think you have pine borers. They killed 4 out of 6 pines we had in our garden. The last two pines blew down this winter.
You do have a great eye for the usually overlooked treasures.
Natures Art is amazing! Great find!
I do like the quote. What an interesting design.
Nature IS art, and ALL creatures are capable of creating wonderful work - as these shots show.
Well spotted!
Gary
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Actually, I think it is wee tree elves working on their wood carving or wood burning art. Luck you to have found it! Perhaps you can sell it on eBay! :)
It's beautiful isn't it!
Hi Nina
This is art at it's very finest.. what can be more beautiful than art from natures own hand.. I would have been over the moon with this find.. in must be like going in a long forgotten attic room and coming across an 'old Master.. :O)
The thing I absolutely love most about your blog is how you find beauty in the wee, the tiny, the simple, the easily-overlooked.
How many people walked by that spot yet did not see it? You really look, and that makes all the difference.
~Kathi
Hi Nina,
I really like the sense of curiosity and humility that your bring to the world. That pattern is magical. I think a fairy wrote it.
This is so beautiful - great find :)
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