Transcending Upward Through a Maple Tree

Here I am not long home from my Tuesday evening class at University, it is a really special class consisting of both American and Canadian students in unity to grow together in the intellectual atmosphere of advance schooling at the University level. Ironical we can really bounce off each other in interpretating the Professors lectures on transcending art through the ages. It is good to be in a class room with such diversity, where homeland political differences are left out there in no person's land, and we can even find some humour through it all. I got to comment on a piece of art I did some time back, trying to relate a personal experience as a Artist, when I unconsciously produced a woman on her back with her legs spread in the clouds for the sky scene I was painting. I explained how I took my moment to stand back and pay attention to what I was painting, with seeing the woman in the clouds that was forming, I took to touching it up to make the image more pronounced. When I tried to relate how it could be my sexual frustration coming out as an old man, one young Lady said "thanks", then I felt that blush and redness on my face coming through, we all got a good chuckle out of it. I chose this particular image for my posting for several reasons, first and foremost; we studied an Artist's work that involved trees. His pictorial way of producing them in various degrees of artistic impression, from figurative to abstract. It proved to very interesting seeing how one can produce an animate object (a tree is a living thing) affectively with such vastness in style and creative concept. The second reason being: the students from both sides of the Canadian boarder in my class share the maple tree in various ways. We have several industries around the maple tree that has to be protected and promoted effective for mutual economic growth of our prospective regions concerned. The maple syrup/sugar/candy (even maple tea these days) industry is a functional operation on both sides of our boarder, that depends on cost effective environmental concerns relating to green house gases and acid rain, for it will be costly if  these enviromental concerns get out of control, thus damaging the rich vastness of our maple forests. There is also a lumber industry that works around the maple tree, where forest harvest must be controlled with implimenting reforestation to sustain the industry over a projected period of time for generations to come. One of my musical instuments, namely my mouth recorder which is made in Germany, has been machined out of maple wood with fine precission, and has a wonderful sound when properly maintained with wood moisture, as to the instructions that came with the instument. By the way, everyone knows, especially in my classroom at school, I still have a hard time spelling, I just can not remember how to spell every word and spell check is not part of the new Blogger format due to inernational differences in lingustics and spelling or I am yet to find the spell check on the new posting page. But I still have a dictionary to get things right....