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July 25, 2013 by Kat

Dear Winter Trees

It’s been a while since I’ve seen you, and I wanted to let you know that you are on my mind. I’ve been missing your interesting shapes against the sky. I find myself seeing glimpses of you in your summer cousins. You know, the ones with fewer leaves? I see you in their branches and shadows. And I miss you more.

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Don’t get me wrong, I love summer and don’t want to hasten its end. I love the long days of light, the heat, the fresh fruits and vegetables, running around with bare feet, wearing sunglasses and crop pants, and no homework. There is too much good in summer to hurry it along.

But the summer trees? Not as interesting as you. All their best features are hidden by their summer finery of leaves.

So know that when the time comes for you to return, at least one person will be rejoicing. I’ll be excited to see you this fall, with my camera in hand. I already have big plans for us.

Yours,
Kat


My latest article, Smartphone Art 2: Improve your images with basic editing, is up on the Seek Your Course blog now. Stop on over to get an overview of basic photo editing, selective adjustments, and how to find and choose apps. Let me know what you think!

What else do you want to learn? I’m prepping for my Smartphone Art workshop here in Oregon in a couple of weeks and starting to think about an online class. Now is the perfect time to let me know what you want to learn. Where are you having trouble? What makes you say, How did she do that? Drop me a note.

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Filed Under: The Kat Eye View of the World Tagged With: Corvallis, shadow, smartphone art, summer, tree, winter

Comments

  1. Sherry Smyth says

    July 25, 2013 at 3:39 pm

    That’s so true and I hadn’t seen it that way Kat. The leaves blur and obscure everything else about the trees…and they’re lovely, but when you see an old, bare branch it does bring you back to how they look in winter! Keen eye you’ve got!

  2. Jack Larson says

    July 26, 2013 at 8:43 am

    Seems like a paradigm for women and their clothing 🙂

    • Vi says

      July 26, 2013 at 9:42 am

      Living in the desert I too miss the winter trees, and the summer ones. You can’t hug a cactus. Your pictures are a gift for my psyche.

      Vi

  3. Miriam says

    July 26, 2013 at 3:39 pm

    I was looking up at the shapes of the trees through a white cotton canopy, I could see their branches quite clearly. A lovely reminder of what will return.

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