As you might guess from some earlier posts, I like the woods. I like to disappear into them for hours. It’s best to not have an agenda: maybe hike around until you stumble across an interesting plant or insect, or
find a good hillside perch looking over a valley. Then you either move on or sit and listen to the trees creaking, the squirrels and chipmunks and wind rustling the leaves, the birds calling back and forth.

For those of us who can’t simply walk out the door and into the forest, here are three wooded spots to disappear into. Although I’d also recommend the real thing, next chance you get.

Rodolphe Bresdin, The Brook in the Woods, 1880. Etching. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Laura Bell, Blackford Forest, 2009. Photograph.  www.lbellphoto.com

Gustav Klimt, Buchenwald I, 1902. Oil on canvas. Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany.