Nature feels art installation : Update

It seems like quite a while since I have taken you back to the secret location of my first art installation and shown you what has been happening there. Last time I showed you it I think there was still snow on the ground. So much has changed since the forest has woken up after such a long hard winter. The area was also hit be a dramatic wind storm while I was in Austria and so many of the trees had fallen over I was really concerned that their would no longer be an art installation but it seems as though the trees that I chose to lay my stone and crocheted pieces down next to were unharmed. Nature has begun to enter into a symbiotic relationship with the lace pieces. This is most evident with the growth of trout lily plants through the lace matrix. The moss on one of the tree pieces has started to grow over one edge. The other lace piece that was tucked into an edge of rolled birch bark has started to become a home for little insects and a family of mealy bugs. n the dead leaves just to the right of the stone I found a morning cloak butterfly resting its wings. All around I spotted white and red trilliums, trout lilies, ferns, the sporophytes of moss and other wild flowers. I almost forgot the pair of darling slugs that were at the base of the tree.

I hope to visit at least once at week because I feel that so much will change in the next few weeks. Please check back later. 

I want to mention if you want to read the best blog post I have ever read about the poetic nature of ferns please read this. 

Comments

[Sonia]

Oooh Margie, thanks so much for keeping us updated about the installation. I was thinking about it a couple of days ago. I'm not much surprised that nature accepted your art & started to grow on/through/around it. It is just wonderful ! And I can't wait for new photos, as I think, like you just said, that things will probably change fast in the next few weeks.
I agree, Patricia's post about ferns was totally brilliant & so well written, she's a real master in the art of writing ! :)
Have a great Thursday, my dear. Much love xoxo

[joanie]

I love that the trout lily has made your crocheted piece home! It's amazing how quickly life returns after winter and how warmth speeds up the growth, your installation is a lovely example. The slug picture made me chuckle, looks as though they're posing they're so perfectly aligned. I'm off to read the fern post :)

[michele (maryland)]

Margie, thanks so much for the red trillium---I do miss them so! Enjoy your Ontario forest spring beauty..

[Patricia]

Aw, shucks, Margie (and Sonia!!). Your appreciation means a lot to me since you were the person who opened my eyes to all of the things I wasn't appreciating deeply enough in the natural world around me. You walk alongside me in spirit every day.

Thank you for the update on your art installation. I love how all of the plants are enveloping your pieces so tenderly. Nature truly constructs no boundaries.

[Lisa :: the red thread]

Thanks for the update. I love your installation!

[Q and Q]

What a wonderful idea--it will be so fascinating to see how this changes as the season matures. Thank you for more astonishing photos.