To Our Lady Of Solitude By Dennis Scholl

Mid City Summer, Los Angeles -- July 26th, 2024

Etsy

Still Life

Photography © Ian Maile @ianmaile2

Green is a versatile color that invites the best of nature indoors even on the coolest of winter days. On the spectrum, green falls between warm and cool colors, so what you combine it with will alter its effect. Use green and blue and the effect is cooler, more subdued.

Interior Design On Your Own, 1986

This was an incredibly beautiful nurse stump I found on Alder Ridge at Oxbow Regional Park in Oregon (it's near the flight path for Portland International Airport, hence the plane sounds near the end.) This is likely an old western red cedar (Thuja plicata) stump, hollowed out by decay and hosting a wide variety of mosses, lichens, fungi and other living beings. It was probably a good four feet in diameter at the base, perhaps a little larger, and while large portions of it have long since returned to the soil and the nutrient cycle, this ancient tree continues to feed the forest.