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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1957)
Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun., Mar. 24, '57 (Sec II121 By CARL HALL It it the unexpected in nature that brings to our relationship with her tnal certain element of respect and humility. Continually surprised by the unforscen, constantly hum bled by revealed secrets, we face her like children. That we may have the knowledge to understand her revelations does not minimize, by any measure, the shock of dis covery. What is perhaps most pro vocative both for our esthetic res ponse and our intellectual know ins, well as our curiosity about nature, is that discovery is given i to us on common, familiar ground II seems we are surrounded by what we "know" and then, how swift the revelation, we find we h-id never really noticed what was close at hand. Familiarity breeds a special form of blindness that periodically Is Jolted and thru caressed Into a rude but surprising awakening. We disrover rainbows in the barkyard and for a short while the yard Is transformed and we who watch are transfixed by the rebirth of that which we had taken for granted grass was never so luminous, trees. were enwrapped in halos, the very air was a symphonic spectrum Or again, a common shrub is transformed by an unexpected sea sonal occurence into a thing of in effable beauty. A large pussywil low shrub whose harvest of cotton like projectiles, beginning to un- limber and fall, brought every early spring bee in the neighbor hood Into a buzzing, humming fe ver. Under the warm aun every pussywillow shrub was invested, in turn, by sound and the flit of countless wings. WOODLAND MUSIC To come upon such a buzzing shrub in the early spring woods is to be struck with a sense of magic; the shrub of sound seems to be palpitating, the countless swarms of sounding bees, thickly spread through the leafless branches of the shrub, activate into subtle motion its rooted spread. In the hakrdness of the spring woods the s p e e I a e I e of a fur lingered shrub la song seems to be a symbolic gesture an the part of the woods, spring given form by the countless wiags rather than by the Inevitable mass of leaf. A gesture that the trees In them selves will pick up, for is It not true that early leaf la a dense wood often reminds one of green butterfly wings trapped la the tracery of branch and dense viae: silent and free af flight yet poised on the upward thrust of growth. As one watches and listens the humming, buzzing shrub all of a sudden grows silent, and since oce cannot see the bees leaving (how much we can miss) this sudden stillness comes as a sharp pene trating surprise. The shrub all of sudden becomes anonymous. Hav ing lost its voice it seems to lose its special quality of identity that wings gave it! It was as if spring has fluttered and then left and winter had returned. MORE SURPRISES . We move on, ready to be mir- prised by other trees and shrubs that are blossoming in song and periodically from afar we hear a soft steady burring that grows louder as we approach and then, all of a sudden, we are under the melodious shrubs, spring envelopes us like a mesh of mica wings and the beauty of it all is overpower ing. The spring woods are trans formed, the great legends of green and brown rise up from the shrouds of winter and we can almost hear the sap in the fibers of its mass and we watch the sun take long slow steps into the woods: look. the green butterflies seem to be moving, what rises there by the creek without a sound in the branches of the trees? The bees are gone but something else is rising, as yet without sound but with wings of green that break the sun into fallen wings that never carry sound on an early spring morning. Needlecraft Needle art you'll be proud to do proud to display as a future family heirloom.' 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