Forestry in the Valley

Mixed feelings about this one. When we arrived in the valley eight years ago the forest had not been touched since 1982. So green and cool. Then we had a huge storm a few years later that flattened the forest across the valley. A few months later the forestry crews arrived to clear the wreckage and log the remainder. Strangely I see another kind of beauty in the stark bones of the hillside. Eventually they will replant, and so the cycle goes.

I like this painting though. Oil on panel, 12x14 in. "Forestry in the Valley".



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