I spent time in the rainforests on the Canadian West coast, in particular on Vancouver Island. You cannot walk there without sinking knee-deep into the muck, and big ferns towering over you. So they built elevated walkways for you to explore. The fallen giant cedars are called nurse logs: there are new trees growing out of them. Same happens with trees that are struck by lighting. I painted them. Maybe I should post those paintings some time. I was inspired by a Austrian Artist living in Canada, Ernest Lindner, a great teacher who painted 2 distinct things: Nature close-ups like these trees, and nude women. Sometimes he combined the two.