Off to the woods...

Such a mild autumn and winter this year - it's hard to believe that it has taken so long for leaf fall. Yesterday I took to the bike and went harvesting in the woods for whatever twigs look nice at the moment, I'll leave them for two or three weeks to dry a little then use them for a variety of trays, baskets and 'mountainscapes'. I came back to the studio with Birch, Larch, Willow, Elm and Soft Rush. Sweet Chestnut - thick grey twigs with distinctive lines running down the trunk bark from each bud.

Birch - beautiful reddish brown twigs with many branches.

Hazel - not with frost but with a fine downy covering highlighted by the sun behind.

Larch - fine, flexable and both scaly and knobbly with a yellowish tinge.

Willow - shiny, long and reddish brown with branchesat the tip.

My harvest - from left Birch, Larch, Willow, Elm.

Comments

[Grzegorz Maląg]

Birch twigs for brooms :-)
http://wiklina.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/miotly-brzozowe/

[velma bolyard]

what a wonderful solstice thing, harvesting what the land has to offer. here (north country of n.y.state), too, it's very mild. your mountainscapes are very fine.