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A placid stream winds through the valley, its surface a glassy ribbon that catches the summer light and softens it into gentle glints. Stony banks cradle the water’s edge—smooth pebbles and flat slabs worn by time—each rock a subtle punctuation in the landscape. Beyond them, woodlands rise to cloak the hills: maples, oaks, and whispering pines layered in varied greens, their canopies swaying in a slow, unhurried conversation with the breeze.
The air is warm but tempered by shade; sunbeams filter through leaves to patch the ground with gold. Dragonflies stitch brief, bright patterns above the stream while occasional ripples betray the passage of a fish or the drift of a fallen leaf. Sound is sparse: the soft susurrus of water over stones, the distant call of a bird, the faint rustle of leaves—each note measured and generous in its calm.
This is a quiet summer day that soothes the viewer’s soul: uncomplicated, steady, and full of small, sustaining beauty. The scene invites slow breaths and a softened gaze, a reminder that peace often arrives in the simple steadiness of water meeting stone and trees holding the hillside.
12 1/2” x 12 1/2”
A placid stream winds through the valley, its surface a glassy ribbon that catches the summer light and softens it into gentle glints. Stony banks cradle the water’s edge—smooth pebbles and flat slabs worn by time—each rock a subtle punctuation in the landscape. Beyond them, woodlands rise to cloak the hills: maples, oaks, and whispering pines layered in varied greens, their canopies swaying in a slow, unhurried conversation with the breeze.
The air is warm but tempered by shade; sunbeams filter through leaves to patch the ground with gold. Dragonflies stitch brief, bright patterns above the stream while occasional ripples betray the passage of a fish or the drift of a fallen leaf. Sound is sparse: the soft susurrus of water over stones, the distant call of a bird, the faint rustle of leaves—each note measured and generous in its calm.
This is a quiet summer day that soothes the viewer’s soul: uncomplicated, steady, and full of small, sustaining beauty. The scene invites slow breaths and a softened gaze, a reminder that peace often arrives in the simple steadiness of water meeting stone and trees holding the hillside.
12 1/2” x 12 1/2”