Monday, November 7, 2011

Outdoor Fall Leaf Art

Fall seems to be coming to an end in this neck of the woods.  Mostly all the leaves have fallen and there are a few isolated trees that have some color on them.  Winter will be here before you know it so we decided to take advantage of this past beautiful weekend to enjoy a little hike through one of our local parks.  Whenever I am out in the woods I think about the Land artist Andy Goldsworthy and am tempted to create something with the surrounding natural elements.  Usually I can get C to get involved because it seems to come natural for children to create with what is ever around them!!!  Also, we have done quite a bit of Land Art here and here and here so it didn't take much inspiration.  Here is our creation:


Placing the stems of each leaf into the bark of the tree.


Admiring our creation and wondering if we should add more leaves?


Or not...?


It was a simply BEAUTIFUL day!


C had a lot of fun jumping and running through the woods!
Do you see she lost one of her front teeth??


We LOVE Fall just in case you haven't noticed!!!

7 comments:

  1. Looks like so much fun! I don't really LOVE fall but I do enjoy the beginning of it. Luckily we're still expecting quite a few warm days (70s) and are trees are mostly full of leaves still. I'm not a fan of cold weather so we've been spending as much time outside as we can before it starts getting too cold

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  2. beautiful! You both are stars in landscape-art, I enjoyed looking at the pics. Angelique

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  3. very cool...like a frozen image of the leaves falling.

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  4. liked this idea.....thanks for sharing

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  5. Loved the pictures! I agree with @Jena - looks as like a frozen image of leaves falling...!

    We are planning to go into the woods this weekend to do some land art and savour the beauty of this season...

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  6. Melissa,
    I love this art!
    What could be more beautiful, really!!
    It looks like a wonderful day!
    Beautiful picture of Cassie!
    Congratulations to her, on the missing tooth!
    Brenda

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  7. Nice pictures and beautiful art!!
    Thanks for sharing!

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