Dead Tree, New Growth

I was entranced by these fungus growths on some bark yesterday.  Anything growing in January in the northeast is curious to me.  Then my husband pointed out that the tree they are growing on is dead.

Loving that contrast between dead tree and new growth!

Bermuda Palm

Sometimes I can't improve on, expand upon, or springboard off a photo. Here's a photo of a kind of palm I photographed last week in Bermuda.

I love the dead bits of the trunk intersecting with the new palm branch shoots! Drawn to those contrasts!

Painting in Bermuda

Canary Palm, 2012, oil, 14X18

Visiting Bermuda this week I was stunned again by the exotic tropical plant life.  The juxtaposition of dead-ish bark and vibrant life is what attracts me most.  Here's a painting I did one morning while I was there.  There are ferns growing out of the trunk where former branches were cut back, and bright yellow spiny spikes at the base of the new palm fronds.