Bronze tip of a pin oak branch with acorns and empty gold-dusted caps – Watercolour
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Picking up a short branch that had fallen from one of the pin oaks, I marvelled at the beautifully positioned caps–empty bowls–of the acorns, traced on the inside with delicate gold.
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Before heading south after a Thanksgiving week-end with friends in the Muskokas, we had cut over to Dorset on Highway 35 to see the view from the old fire lookout. Â It was puzzling to see so many acorns lying beneath an oak tree! Where were the squirrels?
On the farm where I grew up, a gigantic oak tree guarded the bend in the river as it headed toward the woods. When my sisters and I went with our mother on an outing to collect autumn leaves, we’d spend some time by a gigantic white oak tree. Â Its lobes were rounded rather than pointed. Mother made crowns for us by fastening the stem of one oak leaf into the rounded end of another!
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