Trees in Winter in Brisbane, Australia. " It seems like everything sleeps in winter, not really ..."

Meditation in Photography and Painting

Trees in Winter in Brisbane, Australia

“It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.”— Elizabeth Camden, Until the Dawn

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." 

Winter is grace, winter is preparation.  Meditate in the woods and learn more about life.

“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

Meditation with the trees. "The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood." - John Burroughs

"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."