Alder and other stuff, early spring, north-west Ireland

various different pens, different inks, on A5 Bristol board, Mar 26 2019

Published by peter robinson

kestrelart says:

Mar 26, 2019 at 11:49 pm

Such a cool tree

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1. peter robinson says:
  
  Mar 27, 2019 at 10:50 am
  
  Thanks! I love alders, and they’re everywhere, sitting with their roots in boggy ground sucking up the water… very useful tree! I sometimes wonder, however, whether in truth they sustain rather than alleviate boggy ground conditions… My imagination tells me, Remove the alders and you will thereby also remove the bogs; that the two need each other; that the one cannot be without the other. But of course I know (do I really?) that that’s nothing but fanciful thinking.
  
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artsofmay says:

Mar 27, 2019 at 7:58 pm

I love this drawing.

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1. peter robinson says:
  
  Mar 27, 2019 at 8:03 pm
  
  Thanks May… this old tree hasn’t yet broken into leaf… hundreds of new shoots but it’s still quite cold here…
  
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