Meditation in Photography and Painting
Trees in Winter in Brisbane, Australia
Photographs and Painting by Dr Abe V Rotor
"With paintbrush and acrylic colors, half lying on the lawn, I tried to capture the scene on canvas, the sun overcast revealing the undergrowth as temperate trees are mainly deciduous, save the evergreens mainly gymnosperms - cypresses and pines." - AV Rotor
"I found new life in a dead tree, a pair of birds singing." - AV Rotor
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." — Victor Hugo
"One can follow the sun, of course, but I have always thought that it is best to know some winter, too, so that the summer, when it arrives, is the more gratefully received.” — Beatriz Williams
In winter meditate and reflect. "The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The woods, unlike our tropical rainforest, are sparse as the trees undergo hibernation in winter. In the Southern hemisphere the seasons are exactly the opposite of ours in the northern hemisphere, when it is summer, it is winter in Australia,*
"Do trees, like many of us humans, feel lonely and alone in winter? There is a
difference between being alone and being lonely. Being alone is being away from others because you choose to. Being lonely is when there is no one there for you." - Unknown
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes
taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”— Anne Bradstreet,
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”— Paul Theroux
“Grace grows best in winter.” — Samuel Rutherford
"I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.” — Andrew Wyeth
"Signs of spring, though still a month ahead, are found in garden
plants growing in flower pots and plots cared by human hands."
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
— William Blake
— William Blake
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