After a recent hail storm, maple leaves littered my patio. The contrast of green against gray, nature against man-made, struck me. I increased the hue saturation in the green to show the details in the leaf and to create a more artsy image. BTW, as a teen, my bedroom was painted lime green, like this leaf.
GIVE ME GREEN. Not money, although I would accept that. But color.
Vibrant, 1970s hippy lime green.
Dark green as deep as the shadowed forest.
The earthy green of unfurling corn leaves poking through soil.
Mixed shades of green massed in a hillside of trees set against the brooding skies of a moody May evening in rural Minnesota.
I couldn’t take my eyes off this scene northeast of Medford on a recent Monday evening. The lines of light and dark broken by that mass of trees appealed to me visually. And the lighting, oh, the lighting. Perfect. This was shot while my husband and I were traveling along a county road.
Grass green slicing across a field.
The soft sage of dried herbs.
Any green will do.
TELL ME, WHAT hue holds your heart?
Along the same county road near Medford, this near-barren field, sliced by that line of green grass, caught my eye as did the foreboding sky and the light, oh, the luscious light of early evening.
© Copyright 2012 Audrey Kletscher Helbling
Minnesota Prairie Roots 
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