Retreat - Part VII (downed trees)

One of the main projects I wanted to work on at the retreat was a book dummy based on a poem that Jane Yolen wrote in response to my IMC Trolls at Tea piece -

It is a riotous romp through a number of problematic meals with mythological critters. SO fun to think about and design. I'm trying to put together a finished enough dummy to shop around since this happened rather spontaneously rather than commissioned. There will be updates!

I have no good segue into this entry's visuals. :-)

As I mentioned in a previous post, there were quite a few downed trees this year, some brand new - such as this tree. You can't really tell the scale of the root ball here, but it is a good 3 feet taller than I am. *Enormous*. Our hostess called it the Inception tree - you stand next to those roots and it feels like the rest of the world is tipped sideways...

Another recently downed tree - it's branches festooned with long tufts of celadon moss...

A longer time downed tree - whose roots now look like the entry to a fairly scruffy fairy lair....

More twisty tree trunks..

Always cool peeling bark.. Up close, it's like an abstract painting.

Always lots to see, and lots to love...