Focus On Dogwood

Terry Rowe

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Terry Rowe

Alexandria, VA

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Title

Focus On Dogwood

Artist

Terry Rowe

Medium

Photograph - Digital Photography

Description

The focus is on a single dogwood blossom opening in the early spring.

Images and textures have been layered to create a composite art print of a original photograph.

FEATURED PHOTO:
Greetings and Posters group
06/07/2013

FEATURED PHOTO:
Virginia Artists group
06/08/2013

The name "dog-tree" entered the English vocabulary by 1548, and had been further transformed to dogwood by 1614. Once the name dogwood was affixed to this kind of tree, it soon acquired a secondary name as the Hound's Tree, while the fruits came to be known as dogberries or houndberries (the latter a name also for the berries of black nightshade, alluding to Hecate's hounds). Another theory advances the view that dogwood was derived from the Old English dagwood, from the use of the slender stems of its very hard wood for making "dags" (daggers, skewers, and arrows). Another, earlier name of the dogwood in English is the whipple-tree. Geoffrey Chaucer uses "whippletree" in The Canterbury Tales ("The Knight's Tale", verse 2065) to refer to the dogwood. A whippletree is an element of the traction of a horse-drawn cart, linking the drawpole of the cart to the harnesses of the horses in file; these items still bear the name of the tree from which they are commonly carved.

Dogwoods have simple, untoothed leaves with the veins curving distinctively as they approach the leaf margins.

Dogwoods are widely planted horticulturally, and the dense wood of the larger-stemmed species is valued for certain specialized purposes. Cutting Boards and other fine turnings can be made from this fine grained and beautiful wood.

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