Still Standing is a painting by Steve Henderson which was uploaded on April 10th, 2020.
Still Standing
It started out as a seedling, then a sapling. It was the veriest sprite of a tree, surrounded by a forest of much bigger trees. Every day it... more
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Title
Still Standing
Artist
Steve Henderson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Paper
Description
It started out as a seedling, then a sapling. It was the veriest sprite of a tree, surrounded by a forest of much bigger trees. Every day it struggled for light – the precious sunlight that all life on the planet needs to grow and thrive.
Day by day the little tree grew; year by year it added to its height and girth. Eventually, it became a decent-sized tree, no longer in danger of being trampled underfoot by a passing human or animal. One day, it was Christmas-tree sized, but no one came up that year, or at least to that place, to select it.
And so the tree continued to grow. With time, it grew into a mighty tree, like one of those that used to tower over it in its very early, vulnerable days. It was now the grandest of trees in a great forest.
And then . . . something happened, and the tree died. Perhaps it was attacked by bugs and parasites. Maybe it was lightning. Or the trunk was completely ringed and it could no longer get the nourishment it needed, flowing through its tree veins from the sap. Slowly but surely, the tree lost its needles, until one day it was completely bare.
This great and mighty tree, that had so gloriously reigned for many years, was now a snag – a dead tree, detritus, dried wood ready to fall and finish its existence on the forest floor.
Only . . . it didn’t fall. The tree stayed standing, denuded of all its greenery, a mass of bare branches that stood out against the foliage surrounding, but still tall, still towering, a landmark of its own in a forested landscape.
Strong, determined, indomitable, the tree wasn’t ready yet to give up the fight, just because it looked like it had lost.
It was still standing.
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Uploaded
April 10th, 2020
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Robyn King
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