Haha....maybe my next poem - if there is one - will be about the big bad bro threatening bee. I'll be sure to put some birds on it. Ever seen Hitchcock's movie 'Birds'?I have a big bro- a redwood tree in my backyard. I am awfully afraid of that brother, cause it is so big, and the roots are too powerful. I am afraid, when the next big earthquake comes, it will lift up my house. Otherwise, I am quite comfortable and pleased with it.
My Brother
Diane-thank you for posting about the redwoods/sequoia trees. It is very true-perhaps you know, there is a Muir wood park near San Francisco, just across the bridge. There are sequoia trees thousand years old. When you walk there-feels most creepy and indeed-the feeling is as if the dinosaurs would come up any minute. I did not like the feeling. Actually, I was there just a years ago, before Christmas. I went out with my measuring tape Diane, just for you, I measured my tree, and it was just Ft 10 around somewhere a bit upper at the base. I have no idea, what genius have planted it there, perhaps just a bird dropped the seed. My house has been built in 1907, just after the big earthquake, which destroyed SF.
Some 4 years ago I noticed that there is some sort of weed, or a little plant, which looked like a dill. So I let it be, but it grew bigger and bigger, and at the 3 year I noticed that it is a little bro- a pine tree!
So recently I asked some mexican guys to dig it out and plant it in the pot, because I did not want the pine tree growing in my back yard in addition to the redwood.
But the little bro- pine tree did not like the operation-replanting. Even if it is raining now, it looks like it is wilting or something. Anyhow, it looks sad, but what can I do? I can bring it in for a Christmas time, but still, he cannot be my guest any longer than that.
Kush- darling, I hope you will write another poem, I'm very much expecting, that the birds will be mentioned there. I have those lovely hummingbirds and the whole lot of many others. Well, don't mention raccoons! Because those nasty creatures love to sit on the branches of my redwood tree. When I would tell them to go away, they just would shake their heads, roll their already rolling eyes,
and laugh at me. 
Once I even was throwing a rock at them. I left a bottle of wine on the table in the yard for a little while-they ravaged the table, and knocked over the bottle. I think they got drunk, because they behavior was just outrageously rude and the wine was all gone.
I am no friends with them no more.
Please, keep writing, was very good!
Some 4 years ago I noticed that there is some sort of weed, or a little plant, which looked like a dill. So I let it be, but it grew bigger and bigger, and at the 3 year I noticed that it is a little bro- a pine tree!
So recently I asked some mexican guys to dig it out and plant it in the pot, because I did not want the pine tree growing in my back yard in addition to the redwood.But the little bro- pine tree did not like the operation-replanting. Even if it is raining now, it looks like it is wilting or something. Anyhow, it looks sad, but what can I do? I can bring it in for a Christmas time, but still, he cannot be my guest any longer than that.
Kush- darling, I hope you will write another poem, I'm very much expecting, that the birds will be mentioned there. I have those lovely hummingbirds and the whole lot of many others. Well, don't mention raccoons! Because those nasty creatures love to sit on the branches of my redwood tree. When I would tell them to go away, they just would shake their heads, roll their already rolling eyes,
and laugh at me. Once I even was throwing a rock at them. I left a bottle of wine on the table in the yard for a little while-they ravaged the table, and knocked over the bottle. I think they got drunk, because they behavior was just outrageously rude and the wine was all gone.
I am no friends with them no more.
Please, keep writing, was very good!
bee
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Diane
That’s amazing, Bee, the sense of timelessness you get from walking through ancient forests. Priceless. Trees are silent witnesses to so much of history. I can imagine it might be a bit unnerving at the same time, though…Diane-thank you for posting about the redwoods/sequoia trees. It is very true-perhaps you know, there is a Muir wood park near San Francisco, just across the bridge. There are sequoia trees thousand years old. When you walk there-feels most creepy and indeed-the feeling is as if the dinosaurs would come up any minute. I did not like the feeling. Actually, I was there just a years ago, before Christmas.
Thanks for measuring the tree for me! It is still a young tree yet, but pretty impressive as I imagine it. (It sounds about the right size for Lizzy and I to hug. If you spot us in your garden acting weirdly, that’ll be what we’re doingI went out with my measuring tape Diane, just for you, I measured my tree, and it was just Ft 10 around somewhere a bit upper at the base.
.)Maybe a bird did just drop the seed. Serendipity, for your house and the tree.I have no idea, what genius have planted it there, perhaps just a bird dropped the seed. My house has been built in 1907, just after the big earthquake, which destroyed SF.
Oh dear. How about giving it to someone who wants a pine tree in their yard? Sounds like it doesn’t like being potted.Some 4 years ago I noticed that there is some sort of weed, or a little plant, which looked like a dill. So I let it be, but it grew bigger and bigger, and at the 3 year I noticed that it is a little bro- a pine tree! So recently I asked some mexican guys to dig it out and plant it in the pot, because I did not want the pine tree growing in my back yard in addition to the redwood.
But the little bro- pine tree did not like the operation-replanting. Even if it is raining now, it looks like it is wilting or something. Anyhow, it looks sad, but what can I do? I can bring it in for a Christmas time, but still, he cannot be my guest any longer than that.
Thanks for the story Bee. I understand you are an artist. Have you included the redwood in any of your work?
Diane
Diane-although I do live in a city, but I am surrounded by trees- Kush's big brothers. From the street side of my house at the steps to my house -- there are two palm trees, one huge and one smaller. They are really, really beautiful. I have to say, that one, the huge palm tree is the closest to my heart. It greets me every time I come home and it feels like a family member. I have to admit, that I have hugged that one many times, even if like Kush, I am not a tree hugger. I can bee a door kisser though- if I come after home being away for longer time, I would kiss my doors, so happy i am to be home'
No, as an artist, I have done nothing about that redwood. Landscapes or trees are very seldom objects to my art. Only if I am commissioned to do something of that nature, I would have to do that, but not with enthusiasm. Also, it would involve totally different technique. I am interested and obsessed more about paying attention to technique, which requires a long process of underpainting, than sanding, than painting and again sanding the layers off, than again glazing many layers. When one works a la' prima, one perhaps can do the trees and landscapes such, it goes fast and looks fresh. But it does not interest me. I've been studying the old techniques of the Northern Renaissance, and it fascinates me even more, as I am going deeper into that. But it takes patience. Have to work on several painting same time, because for some of them you have to wait for the drying of the layer, in an in the meantime you glaze the other one and so on. Recently I had a disastrous situation, when I decided to layer a 18 karat gold leaf, and than I proceeded to treat it with chemicals, to give it a different shade, but the chemical was too strong and it ate up my gold leaf, which was rather expansive. But I had my lesson. So it goes-no redwood bro's on my paintings.
Take care, Diane and don't treat a gold leaf with calium permanganates/um.
No, as an artist, I have done nothing about that redwood. Landscapes or trees are very seldom objects to my art. Only if I am commissioned to do something of that nature, I would have to do that, but not with enthusiasm. Also, it would involve totally different technique. I am interested and obsessed more about paying attention to technique, which requires a long process of underpainting, than sanding, than painting and again sanding the layers off, than again glazing many layers. When one works a la' prima, one perhaps can do the trees and landscapes such, it goes fast and looks fresh. But it does not interest me. I've been studying the old techniques of the Northern Renaissance, and it fascinates me even more, as I am going deeper into that. But it takes patience. Have to work on several painting same time, because for some of them you have to wait for the drying of the layer, in an in the meantime you glaze the other one and so on. Recently I had a disastrous situation, when I decided to layer a 18 karat gold leaf, and than I proceeded to treat it with chemicals, to give it a different shade, but the chemical was too strong and it ate up my gold leaf, which was rather expansive. But I had my lesson. So it goes-no redwood bro's on my paintings.
Take care, Diane and don't treat a gold leaf with calium permanganates/um.
bee
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Diane
We don't see many palm trees in this part of the world any more than we see redwoods. We do have other varieties of tree though, oak, beech and ash for example, all of which I admire, plus many others, Trees are amazing, I'm glad you find them so beautiful. I feel like being a door-kisser too sometimes . I love front doors and not just my own. There is something so appealing about a door that has been around for a few years, seen a few coats of paint, and a lot of life - which can only be imagined - passing through it. I went through a phase of taking photos of unusual or interesting doors a few years ago.
. Or did you also mean it in a more metaphorical sense 
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Take care,
Diane
. I love front doors and not just my own. There is something so appealing about a door that has been around for a few years, seen a few coats of paint, and a lot of life - which can only be imagined - passing through it. I went through a phase of taking photos of unusual or interesting doors a few years ago. That sounds fascinating Bee. There must be a lot of satisfaction to be gained from such a skilled and painstaking process, the procedure and the finished result. Pity about the expensive mistake. Is any of your work online that you can provide a link to?No, as an artist, I have done nothing about that redwood. Landscapes or trees are very seldom objects to my art. Only if I am commissioned to do something of that nature, I would have to do that, but not with enthusiasm. Also, it would involve totally different technique. I am interested and obsessed more about paying attention to technique, which requires a long process of underpainting, than sanding, than painting and again sanding the layers off, than again glazing many layers. When one works a la' prima, one perhaps can do the trees and landscapes such, it goes fast and looks fresh. But it does not interest me. I've been studying the old techniques of the Northern Renaissance, and it fascinates me even more, as I am going deeper into that. But it takes patience. Have to work on several painting same time, because for some of them you have to wait for the drying of the layer, in an in the meantime you glaze the other one and so on. Recently I had a disastrous situation, when I decided to layer a 18 karat gold leaf, and than I proceeded to treat it with chemicals, to give it a different shade, but the chemical was too strong and it ate up my gold leaf, which was rather expansive. But I had my lesson. So it goes-no redwood bro's on my paintings.
I should be OK there as I don't believe I have any in the cupboard at the momentTake care, Diane and don't treat a gold leaf with calium permanganates/um.
. Or did you also mean it in a more metaphorical sense ?Take care,
Diane
Nice idea- DianeI went through a phase of taking photos of unusual or interesting doors a few years ago.
Even if doors appear in your dreams, that could be of a great significance.
Well, it has been written, that the longevity of the work is proportional to the efforts and skills put into that work.There must be a lot of satisfaction to be gained from such a skilled and painstaking process, the procedure and the finished result.
Actually, the art dealers and buyers have become increasingly aware of the fact, that the modernists, or the artists of present days have been abandoning the skill or craft of painting. Paying no attention, what materials and how they have been using them. Thus, using all kinds of not tested by times paints and solvents, canvases, etc., in a matter of some 20 years, the paintings, which have been sold for big bucks, are falling apart. Dealers are lamenting, that the toughest challenge these days is to find artists who would work with honesty.
They don't want any Pollock or Rothko no more. They have big reasons for that.
About the website, the new one is coming up at the very end of the year.
I let you know. [/b][/b]
No,Or did you also mean it in a more metaphorical sense ?
there was no other meaning.bee
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Diane