Tuesday 14 May 2013

Face of the Forest

 

Don't you just enjoy when walking along the familiar path, something new
appears ever so often?
 
I noticed this face one afternoon - there it was, waiting to be discovered!
 
“I think people who don't know the woods very well
sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery,
an endless continuation of the wall of trees they see lining the road.
 
 And I think they wonder how it could hold anyone's interest for very long,
being all so much the same.
But in truth I have a list of a hundred places in my own town I haven't been yet.
Quaking bogs to walk on; ponds I've never seen in the fall
(I've seen them in the summer - but that's a different pond).
 
That list gets longer every year, the more I learn,
and doubtless it will grow until the day I die.
So many glades; so little time.”  
 
Bill McKibben
 
 
Textures: Revolution by Kim Klassen, Lincoln by Nancy Clayes

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19 comments:

  1. I love how, if we are watching, there are "faces" everywhere. I notice them in floors mostly. And the woods is my favorite place to be. We have none around here though. :(

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    1. I find them also from many places - on the wooden panels often alongside the nature :)

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  2. I think it's puckering up for a kiss! :-)

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    1. Oh yes, Jill, that's well observed ~ Ii just might be doing so :)

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  3. Well that's so cool -- you really captured an interesting pattern. Eye like it. Lol. Thanks for sharing. xo

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    1. Thanks Nancy, It was so fun when I spotted the face :)

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  4. How cool is that?! Love it!

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  5. I have noticed faces in wood grain in furniture as well as the woods; I am inspired to take some walks and look deeper. One of the benefits of inserting myself back into photography is that it has opened my eyes and imagination to so much that exists around me, things I looked at but barely noticed. I now look for the art, the beauty, the surprises. Thank you for reminding me.

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    1. I feel the same ... Photography has somehow refines the perspective... Making one notice both the little and big things around you!

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  6. Really cool shot! I'm going to start looking closer at the trees while I'm hiking.

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    1. Thanks Janine! Sometimes you spot a thing that make you stop - and take another snap shot :)

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  7. Wow, Nina - I absolutely love that quote!
    And the face in the forest is pretty cool, too!
    Our woods are so slow to change this spring.. but it is happening every day. If I don't get out there each day, I'm sure to miss something.

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    1. Your pictures from the base ball and outher out door sports are lovely, Amanda! All of a sudden the Woods are green and you think - "When did that happen" - one afternoon when you're dringing your kids home from sports :)

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  8. I am like you I LOOK and see many faces and shapes -- it is one of those things that keep be searching for such things as you have found - real cool face indeed! See if you can find a heart shape - it's gotta be there..
    Hugs

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    1. A sweet idea to go for heárts - that is my next mission in the Woods :)

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  9. Wow. It reminds me of the stone statues of Easter Island. Very nicely done.

    Earl

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    1. Hi Earl, Thank you for mentioning the statues of Easter Islands - I admired them quite a while - incredible work & size! I remember watching a documentary of them last year... a fascinating story of the population.

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  10. Love that quote! :)
    I agree with Earl, your face of the forest does remind me of the monolithic Moai on Easter Island. :D

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