Debra
I'm getting confused.
Games with axes and hatchets (small axes) are common. Huck, when I lived in Baden-Württemberg, people played a game of trying to drive a nail into a tree stump with a small axe. (Difficult to do.) Supposedly, when he was a little boy, the first American president George Washington cut down a cherry tree with his little axe. When his father confronted him, little George said, "Father, I cannot tell a lie, I cut down the tree." This story was probably invented to demonstrate that Washington was always honest.
Anyway, I don't see an axe stuck in the pine tree in this image, and I'm not sure why the axe is relevant to the hat.
What I do see, though, is that the greyhound and the tree look like they are on a little island, separated from the landscape around them.
What would be the message carried by a pure and loving animal under a tree, with a lead or rope, separated from the rest of the landscape?
As for the Magician card--it does look like a straw hat. Hats are used in magic tricks. I wonder if they were back then, too.
Games with axes and hatchets (small axes) are common. Huck, when I lived in Baden-Württemberg, people played a game of trying to drive a nail into a tree stump with a small axe. (Difficult to do.) Supposedly, when he was a little boy, the first American president George Washington cut down a cherry tree with his little axe. When his father confronted him, little George said, "Father, I cannot tell a lie, I cut down the tree." This story was probably invented to demonstrate that Washington was always honest.
Anyway, I don't see an axe stuck in the pine tree in this image, and I'm not sure why the axe is relevant to the hat.
What I do see, though, is that the greyhound and the tree look like they are on a little island, separated from the landscape around them.
What would be the message carried by a pure and loving animal under a tree, with a lead or rope, separated from the rest of the landscape?
As for the Magician card--it does look like a straw hat. Hats are used in magic tricks. I wonder if they were back then, too.