The four "stars" are based on the interminable variations of the feathered star that quilters use. Reading from left to right: the first star represents Spring. The sun is warming the earth and new, sweet green sprouts arise. Delicately tinted flowers like the Spring Beauty and the more robustly colored red trillium abound on the forest floor. In the next, Star of Summer, the trees have all leafed out now and are at their deepest color. The fields are starting to turn from greens to golds and browns and the field flowers, the wild rose, daisies and other compositae, chicory and thistles proliferate. Transitioning into Fall, of course, the deep golds, oranges, purple-reds and yellows become vivid against remaining greens and browns. At last with Winter, the cool shades predominate with very delicate rosy tints in the sky. The defoliated trees stand in stark, dark contrast.