Imaged on 11 August 2021 and published on 6 July 2022 Location: San Fernando Valley, California
Dear Ones,
What do you think? Is this a dryad (a tree spirit) … or is it the deva of an oak tree? Or maybe a young deva is what is called a dryad or ‘tree spirit’ in esoteric lore …
Image: “Cold Creek Canyon Preserve, Santa Monica Mountains, California: Deva of a California Oak Tree,” by Alice B. Clagett, 11 August 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Cold Creek Canyon Preserve, Santa Monica Mountains, California: Deva of a California Oak Tree,” by Alice B. Clagett, 11 August 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0
Here are some photos of mine that I fancifully call ‘gnome homes’. The first two are standard ‘root gnome’ homes. Then there are three photos of ‘fern gnome homes’. Then there are two photos of ‘city gnome homes’.
Gnomes like dark places; that is clear. From their ability to improvise new homes in the cities of Earth, I can tell these types of nature spirits are highly intelligent and adaptible, despite their earthly bearings …
Image: “Orcutt Ranch Horticultural Center and Community Garden, San Fernando Valley, California 1: Root Gnome Home,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 July 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Orcutt Ranch Horticultural Center and Community Garden, San Fernando Valley, California 1: Root Gnome Home,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 July 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0
Written and published on 12 May 2022 Location: San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California
ARE THESE GNOMES?
THE HICCUP: IS THIS A TROLL?
CONCLUSION
Dear Ones,
Here are some of the nature spirits painted by John Bauer. I like his illustrations very much! There is a hiccup which I will discuss below. At any rate, here are what seem to me to be quite good representations of gnomes and a changeling …
From the size and bearing of the nature spirits shown above, it seems to me the John Bauer painted there what I call ‘gnomes’. Yet the painter calls them ‘trolls’.
I do see what I call ‘trolls’ in other paintings produced by John Bauer. These look rather like the nature spirits shown below, but are much larger … which are a good deal taller than a young man would be. Here is one such illustration of what I might call a ‘troll’ …
From this I gather it may be that there is a relationship between gnomes and trolls, much in the way there is a relationship between the Lesser Dwarves and the Greater Dwarves.
Imaged on 20 February 2022 and published on `12 May 2022 Location: Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California
Dear Ones,
Here is the second of three sets of photos from Santa Susana Pass. This set includes some markups that make clear what seem to my imagination to be nature spirit portraits in the trunks of oak trees …
Image Markup: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 6: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0 … COMMENT: I found and marked up 8 faces that I saw in this tree trunk. Can you find them? –Alice B. Clagett
Image Markup: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 6: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0 … COMMENT: I found and marked up 8 faces that I saw in this tree trunk. Can you find them? –Alice B. Clagett
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 7: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 7: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 8: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 8: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 9: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 9: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 10: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 10: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 11: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 11: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 12: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 12: Oak Tree with Many Faces,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image Markup: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 13: Oak Tree with Many Faces: Gamboling Calf,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image Markup: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 13: Oak Tree with Many Faces: Gamboling Calf,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 14: Gamboling Calf,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, California 14: Gamboling Calf,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 February 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0
