betsy
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My salamander was so sad. I totally missed matching up the line so that his body was a tiny squiggle. I improved with the bird, at least matching up beginning and ending and getting basic shape, The bird of paradise flower was my best attempt, completing some of the points and bumps fairly accurately. The springbok was a big blob with legs. I did get the horns close. Once in an art class we did this with a partner's face. Turned out pretty quirky but fun. I'm sure this is a good brain exercise which at my age I can sure use again and again.
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As a frequent "forest bather" (we are fortunate to live at the base of a mountain that is protected and open for wanderings) I have wondered about a lot of the themes you have mentioned here without realizing that's what I was doing. For instance, every spring beavers show up on our creek and take down a few small trees. We have wondered where they're lodging. If they were damming up this creek we would see massive flooding. So how far are they traveling to harvest these trees? And then again since we've never actually seen them could it be a different animal? I don't know of any other that cuts saplings down quite like this. We have pink lady slippers growing on this mountain. Some years they appear. Others they don't. I've wondered why. Is something eating the bulbs/root systems? Do the conditions required for their thriving change? I know they prefer soil around fallen pine trees but now what else can I observe about them? ' Just two of my wonderings. I appreciate this explanation of themes in the natural world. I have noted them in my journal and intend to revisit them with each trip I make into the wild and wonderful world we live in.
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