Simplicity ...Painting on recycled wood Hillbilly artist Peace Painting a day # 28

14 x 19

on wood board

"simplicity, simplicity, simplicity" thoreau

acrylic , sheet music

Our neighbor is having his forest lumbered...so I have been for a week hearing huge crashes in the woods, as trees older than me fall to the earth. It made me sad. I walked over today to see , but not to close, and watched one before my eyes come crashing down. I felt sorry for the tree. I know it's good to clear a woods , makes it healthier in the long run, but the other part of me saw it for the living thing that is was. I don't feel this way about my vegetables when I pick them , and they were living too. I think the difference is that those trees grew and stood tall and straight through many seasons, snow storms, rains , hails, wind and have survived...then one person with an axe and all those years are gone. I am sure it will go to good use, and be used to build a home for a family somewhere and will still stand for many more years , but just in a different form. (:

Peace