The Apple Orchard — Framed Piece Oil black spruce stand wet and

black spruce stand wet and still

Three goldfinches work through a thistle patch — a male feeding on a spent seedhead at left

The composition is all motion and appetite

the way the animal uses its front paws like hands

the pink petals precisely veined

The Apple Orchard — Framed Piece Oil black spruce stand wet andAn old apple orchard in late autumn the gnarled trunks and bare branches of mature apple trees, the last of the small apples still clinging, the orchard floor deep in fallen leaves. This is a landscape painting about time and endurance: these trees are old, they have borne fruit for decades, and Glen gave them the same attention he would give a large animal the specific character of each trunk, the way the branches divide and divide again, the texture