Adding Depth

The shadows here create a feeling of depth and mystery.
    When I was a kid, we used to walk to an old powder mill in the woods. First, you hiked through two fields and a little patch of deciduous forest in between.  My dad could name all the trees. 

 

     "Look, that one's tulip poplar.  There's an oak, and that one is a maple." 

     If we walked with stealth, we might come across deer.  They weren't bold like the Texas deer, and took flight as soon as they got a whiff of a human.     

     this painting reminds me of deep, cool Pennsylvania woods, where barely a ray reaches the ground.