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Starlings 'Posh spring coats on Ma's cherry stump'
by Tina Bone

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'Posh spring coats on Ma's cherry stump' - Starlings and Sparrow. I have been painting this picture on and off for a couple of years. The cherry tree stump is part of the trunk of a cherry tree which was planted by my mum and dad in their garden, just down the road from me, in the early 1970s. The new owners of my mother's house decided to chop the cherry tree down. I said that I would love to have the trunk and some branches in memory of my mum and dad, and with the help of a local farmer and tractor and trailer, and husband and three sons, the trunk was duly settled in a nice place in my little wild garden. As the picture shows, decay set in and the base of the stump became home to a number of lesser stag beetle larvae, discovered when we moved the stump to accommodate a Scots pine! The stump is now no more as it has completely rotten away. The situation of the starlings is a picture composed from two photographs I took in spring 2006. How beautiful are starlings when you really look at them?
Completed 28th. February 2011.

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