Textures, Abstracts and Colors In Virginia

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One of the really great things about enjoying the small things and the details in nature, is that it travels so well. While visiting family in Virginia, my sister took us out to a local nature preserve on a pleasant early winter day. The land out here is spectacular and different in many ways than my usual haunts in the Indiana Dunes but the enjoyment of being outside in nature is exactly the same, just different.

The lines separating bands of blue and green make this leaf stand out from its comrades on the forest floor. The transition from the more linear structures on the outer parts of the leaf to the wavy pattern at the center is quite striking.
Another spot of color amidst the dominant burnt oranges. Often times color is more powerful when it appears as a small feature of contrast in larger more homogenous setting.
The texture of the bark on this tree was remarkably uniform from bottom to top. The sizes, shapes and orientations of the domains which are sharply defined by the deep dark cracks show a remarkable degree of similarity.
An old fallen tree whose bark had completely fallen away, revealing an abstract image seemingly tattooed into the wood. I see a pair of trees, branches above and roots below, intertwined with a moasic of tans and blues.
A nearby spot on the same fallen tree shows a different, more colorful abstract image. I could have easily spent an hour examining just this one log.

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