Inspired by a view Hillsborough, NC, walking on Riverwalk and looking up through the tree canopy.

The painting title is a phrase from a poem by Jeffery Beam, 'the Green Man's Man' in his book, Gospel Earth (a few lines from the poem below)

I sit at my table counting
the times an acorn hit me
on the head
or the times I looked up straight
up into glinty leaf frissons
when the sun's brevity broke
through the multitude and
I, too, looked down at myself
Green thought in a green shade