by on the step
With the weather dry and sunny at last, garden chores have been beckoning me outdoors. Hence it’s up and down the weathered back stairs many times a day. This just caught my eye as I was coming up with my camera in hand after taking a few photos of some of the flowers in the garden. As you can see, I like this image better than the flower ones. I love the surprise of suddenly seeing it and wondering how I could have missed it before.
June 3, 2013 in Photoworks, Textures by Marja-Leena
Yes I can see why
We also have sunshine, at last, and so I spend a lot of time wandering round the green and admiring the walnut trees. It’s the simple things I love most of all!
We had four days of soaking rain, and the plantlife flourished. This has been followed by a few days of sunny-ish weather with cold, drying winds and some of the plantlife is suffering. Wonderfully, the object of your picture can serenely experience all weathers, and there is peace in that.
Marja-Leena!
Sinulla on hirsitalo! I congratulate you! Living in a log house is one of the healthiest way there is.
We happened to land to Vaasa and a very big concrete block, at the time, 17 yrs ago the biggest one in West Finland. About 1000 inhabitants. And a lot of immigrants as well as refugees. In country side, 29 km east from here, we lived in an old two story house, built of logs, from 1909. Nothing had happened to the house thru the decades.
But wood is the best keeper of warmth and cooling in the heat. It’s been very hot in Finland until today, yesterday it was +27 C and this morning +13, a very sudden drop (inside well over +30). Blowing cold, and drizzling.
I stop to look at the last summer’s leaves always in Spring. Leaves are very beautiful only with their veins left. You did catch that one well!
Julia, I’ve heard of England’s cold spring. Glad it’s warmed up at last. We had a very hot week in early May, then the rains which prevented much gardening. Now it’s a mad rush.
Tom, vagaries of weather there too, but isn’t it always so? Lovely words for this object, thank you.
Marjatta, we don’t have a log house though I’ve often dreamed of a log cabin somewhere by a lake in the woods. That old log home you once lived in sounds cosy. Ours is a wood frame house and this image is taken of a step on the wooden staircase going down from our deck to the garden. I’ve never lived in an apartment block, concrete or otherwise. There are so many highrises in our city now, but I shudder at the idea of living in them. I want to always be close to the earth and its green spaces and gardens.
I’m glad you like this leaf skeleton, so glued to the wood that it was barely noticeable. During the winter, I often admire and photograph the skeletons of the large magnolia leaves that are scattered around the garden. Remember this one?
That eroded leaf is quite subtle, lingering with its friend the wood knot. And next to a departed wood knot, I suppose! The ghost of summer past…
Saw a wood knot on a tree that looked wonderfully like a lidded, dragonish eye on facebook recently. Or perhaps it was the eye of a Cyclopean Ent.
Marly, exactly! The leaf and wood as one. The wood weathers, the leaf disintegrates.
Wood knots in trees are fascinating. Somewhere deep in my archives I have photos of tallish tree stumps that looked like they had eyes, mouths, breasts and bellybuttons.
It is a very beautiful image with the silvery wood shimmering like water in sunlight. The faint traces of moss and the memory of a leaf just add to the mystery.
Susan, what a lovely description, thank you.
A lovely photo. My eyes took a moment to adjust to it, and at first I thought I saw an imprint of the leaf pressed into the wood.
I was thinking of you and your blog the other day because of all the little whispers about Finland that are often found here. We are going to Finland for a few days in July, and I am very much looking forward to it!
Jodi, I agree the leaf does look imprinted, which is why I love it.
How very exciting that you are going to Finland! It’s so close to the UK compared to western Canada. I hope to see some blog posts and photos! Hyvää matkaa, have a good trip!
Oh, I should like to see those, Marja-Leena! (Being a nut for foliate heads…)
Marly, you sent me off on a wild goose, er, tree stump chase through the archives! All I could find is this one. The others must be in a digital photo album somewhere. Enjoy!