October Sun on Cypress Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on panel 9 x 12"/23 x 30cm " This brought all sorts

" This brought all sorts of images to mind

Their bark is as wrinkled as an elephant's

Breaking through to higher realms--how do you know when you are really ascending and when you are just kidding yourself

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October Sun on Cypress Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on panel 9 x 12"/23 x 30cm " This brought all sortsThe pale October sun greets this cypress in its cemetery home. I love how cypress bark gets all sorts of creases and folds, like it's recording history in its form. A crease starts and travels up the tree, becoming deeper, perhaps curving, and then shallower until it is melded into the trunk's shape, where it disappears from our view as it recedes into the tree's memory. To me, this is how history can impact any living being. This tree is great at