‘Wall of Woods’

Oil on Canvas 12″ X 9″

This wall of trees, marching up and away,
rank upon rank; fir and pine, spruce and larch, hemlock, cedar and aspen;
such a rich and diverse array for contemplation.

From a favourite high perch on the mountainside,
looking across a little valley to this hillside beyond;
I feel I could sit and gaze forever into that forest.

It radiates both peaceful stillness, and the vital energy of life.

I imagine I can hear it breathing.

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With the wispy ribbon of mistiness winding towards you from the beyond,

I hope to give you a passageway, bringing the forest to you and

revealing the depths and distances traveled by the eye.

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This Inland Temperate Rainforest in the interior of British Columbia, Canada, is the Earth’s only one of its kind, a wet belt resulting from weather systems, laden with precipitation from the Pacific Ocean almost 500 miles away, rising over the coastal mountains and bringing down a lot of snow and a fair bit of rain when they come up against the heights of the Columbia and Rocky Mountain Ranges. It is a lush and diverse ecosystem, boasting a huge variety of tree species, mosses, ferns and lichens.

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~Barbara Brown, from Volume I, SYLVAN REFLECTIONS, Wanderings, Paintings & Ponderings From the Forest, Page 55