Photo Credit: Kat Myrman 2016
I am obsessed with this tree! This is an image from a different vantage point. It actually looks like there are two branch antlers on her head. She just may be a tree nymph, which explains my obsession. I pass by her every day on my drive home and I can’t look away!
From the Theoi Greek Mythology Website:
THE NYMPHAI (or Nymphs) were female spirits of the natural world, minor goddesses of the forests, rivers, springs, meadows, mountains and seas. They were responsible for the crafting of nature’s wild beauty, from the arrangement and growth of the plants, flowers and trees, to the nurture of wild birds and animals, and the formation of rocky caverns, springs, wetlands and brooks.
Nymphs were also companions of the gods. Dionysos had his wild-eyed Mainades and Bakkhai, Artemis was accompanied by a band of huntress nymphs, Hekate by the dark Lampades nymphs of the underworld. Poseidon‘s court was attended by Nereides and sea nymphs, and the Olympian court by nymph handmaidens.
Other nymphs were nurses of the gods, including the Idaian nymphs that nursed the god Zeus, and the Nysian nymphs who cared for Dionysos.
Tree Nymph
Oaken Nymph
fair blushing Dryad
clinging there
evergreen
dance with us on frostbit earth
sing to us of spring!
kat ~ 13 February 2016
like mercury colliding... 
February 14th, 2016 at 6:45 am
A beautiful obsession!
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February 14th, 2016 at 6:54 am
It’s so intriguing to me! And it does break up the stop and go doldrum of my drive home! ☺️
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February 14th, 2016 at 9:21 am
Yes that is the best part about the whole thing!!
Here is an old folk tale , about a fairy queen …almost a wood nymph!
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February 14th, 2016 at 8:59 am
It looks to me like she has a ponytail. I would not be able to not look when I drove by either.
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February 14th, 2016 at 9:07 am
It does! She changes everyday. I hardly noticed the antlers when I first saw her! I half expect her to sprout wings when next I look! 😊
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February 14th, 2016 at 9:09 am
LOL! Please take a photo when she does. 😀 😀
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February 14th, 2016 at 9:10 am
Oh you know I will!!! I will stop traffic for that! 😜
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February 14th, 2016 at 9:10 am
Hahaha!
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February 14th, 2016 at 1:25 pm
She looks different every time you post a picture of the tree! Very neat!
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February 14th, 2016 at 3:20 pm
She does! I’m convinced she is revealing herself to me little by little! 🙂 Such fun!
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February 14th, 2016 at 6:09 pm
Lovely obsession Kat!
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February 14th, 2016 at 6:41 pm
Yes! I love trees!
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February 14th, 2016 at 6:46 pm
I do too, in our area wow I have noticed some really interesting ones.
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February 14th, 2016 at 7:40 pm
I know you have! You’ve taken some beautiful photographs! 🙂
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February 14th, 2016 at 7:41 pm
I think of you when I see these trees! so many interesting ones! But yours is amazing!
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February 14th, 2016 at 7:42 pm
She keeps changing on me! So intriguing! 🙂
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February 14th, 2016 at 7:57 pm
yes that is the beauty!
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