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Richard Zane Smith says...

This particular piece i did just as the spring colors all around us were replacing the gray and bare woods of winter.
In just a few weeks the hardwood forests that are so still and somber have become a busy force of bursting life .
the adders tongue shoot up starlike blossoms under the still bare canopy of oaks and the trillium and May apple send spikes unfurling as they push through the decomposing leaves from another season. Then comes the redbud and the dogwoods.
here I tried to contrast the green vines of new life with the bare trees showing winter coming to an end