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<\/p>\nI love photographing trees and I have a fondness for tree knot holes, especially those which have interesting shapes and textures.<\/p>\n
As a child I would imagine all sorts of magical beings living in these holes, and would place little treasures inside as gifts.<\/p>\n
Now that I am older, I have discovered there are subtle images and shapes lurking in the places between light and shadow within these knot holes. Below is a sketch of a knot hole near our home.<\/p>\n
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Tree Spirit – Digital Combined Mixed Media<\/strong><\/p>\n In towering splendor once I stood<\/big> I love photographing trees and I have a fondness for tree knot holes, especially those which have interesting shapes and textures. As a child I would imagine all sorts of magical beings living in these holes, and would place little treasures inside as gifts. Now that I am older, I have discovered there are subtle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA regal monarch of the wood,<\/big>
\nMy branches once reached to the sky<\/big>
\nSee me now but do not cry.<\/big>
\nThe Creator’s work has yet to cease<\/big>
\nI’ve become a shelter for bird and beast,<\/big>
\nAnd when at last I fall to the Earth<\/big>
\nThe life I leave will inspire new birth;<\/big>
\nA seedling springs forth from the ground<\/big>
\nNature’s cycle goes round and round.
\n<\/big><\/strong>– S. Edward Palmer, Spirit Tree<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"