Velvet Moss
The forest floor displays a
carpet woven of velvet moss,
and jade green and sienna leaves;
all braided haphazardly
into an abstract pattern,
rich in color and texture.
The moss is a deep, peridot green,
lush and thick; the new leaves
are glassy and polished;
the old ones are textured,
every shade of russet and cocoa,
orange and crimson and purple.
The handicraft of Nature creates
an artful showing of the
latest in breathtaking art;
the elegance of creation,
reworking and revising itself
in an eternal, ethereal design.
The forest floor displays a
carpet woven of velvet moss,
and jade green and sienna leaves;
all braided haphazardly
into an abstract pattern,
rich in color and texture.
The moss is a deep, peridot green,
lush and thick; the new leaves
are glassy and polished;
the old ones are textured,
every shade of russet and cocoa,
orange and crimson and purple.
The handicraft of Nature creates
an artful showing of the
latest in breathtaking art;
the elegance of creation,
reworking and revising itself
in an eternal, ethereal design.
There are so many types of "carpets" on the forest floor. I try to capture as many as I can through photography. The colors are so vivid. So many shades of green, and blue, and purple. I remember a favorite book when I look at these pictures -- Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson. In it, he describes the different "rooms" in the forest. There are rooms -- dark rooms of enchantment with carpet such as this; sunny rooms where there is a break in the trees and lively yellow daisies the size of pea, gray rooms where the gray trunks and gray vines have covered the forest like a canopy. That's the wonderful thing about a walk in The Piney Woods -- you never know what exotic room you will end up in.
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