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.
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