When Innocence Held Sway

"In timeless Time and ageless Age,
When Past was yet to be,
All-Mother wandered pathless Paths
Among Her hills and trees.

"She bathed in pools 'neath waterfalls
Of melted snow, so pure,
And laughed away the icy chill
No mortal could endure.

"She spoke with all Her feathered friends,
And all the furred ones, too.
She danced with all the butterflies.
(Her favorite ones were blue)

"She loved the growing things of green
And watered them each day,
In timeless Time and ageless Age,
When Innocence held sway."

-by- nobody of any importance


Final working file had over 60 layers, including 3 for the butterfly swarm, 4 for the decorative grasses, 4 for the front-right flowers, 4 for the front-left ferns, 2 for the ferns near the bear cub, 2 for the flowers near the rabbit, and 4 (each rotated an additional 90 degrees) for the texture. Nearly 150 MB in size!!! Fortunately, the "flattened" JPG has only 5.58 MB to load.

I hope it meets with your approval.

Background:
[link] by ~Enchantedgal-Stock
[link] by ~barns-en
[link] by =digital-amphetamine

The rest:
Ferns (front-left) [link] [link] and Flowers (front-right) [link] by *Sammykaye1sStamps
Ferns (near bear cub) [link] by =MaureenOlder
Toadstools (near frog and near rabbit) [link] by ~pixievamp-stock
Grasses (near rabbit) [link] by ~TW3DSTOCK
Flowers (near rabbit) [link] by *Shoofly-Stock
Frog [link] and Goldfinches [link] by !Superior-Stock
Squirrel [link] by !Gemz76-stock
Rabbit [link] by =freakystuffstock
Raccoons [link] and [link] by ~funnybunny-stock
Bear Cub [link] by ~lomapatta-stock
Butterflies [link] by !IWS-stock
Cardinal [link] by *Dracoart-Stock
Owl [link] by !cubsocer10-stock
Bluejay [link] by *LucieG-Stock
Downy Woodpecker [link] by ~Redtail1
Dik-Dik [link] by ~absurdus
All-Mother [link] by *mizzd-stock
Butterfly in her hair [link] by ~Chaos--Stock
Texture [link] by *Dezzan-stock

Download is 4000 x 2999

GIMP, Intuos3


The fully expanded Poem is here

All-Mother can also be found here