sunflower dance

15.06.26

Inosculation, a natural phenomenon in which trunks, roots or branches of two trees grow together. When branches or roots from different trees are in prolonged intimate contact, they often abrade each other exposing their inner tissues, which may eventually fuse.

Oil on canvas , 38 x 56 in.

I have! They're VERY good but you have to wait until they are basically yellow and wrinkly on the vine. They come ripe like October around here. And the possums might beat ya to it! Haha

Perhaps there is something profoundly human in this: that our final resting places should eventually become part of the living world again. Among the old stones and statues of Brompton Cemetery, life continues in countless forms. Brompton Cemetery, London, England (3 July 2025).

寺井ちなみ「緑のヴァリエ」

Kew Gardens, London, UK (1 july 2025).

Sunrise over a Bobolink field and then into the woods☀️

Värmland, Sweden (1 July 2015).

Kew Gardens, London, UK (1 july 2025).

Robert Shatzer

Late June evening. Värmland, Sweden (27 June 2020).