tree quote #8

"People who will not sustain trees will soon live in a world which cannot sustain people." Bryce Nelson

tree story #129

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tree story #128

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tree quote #7

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan

tree story #127

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Tree Story #43: Things We Cannot See

At long last, another completed tree story! This is part of the Visions of Heaven show. I've got another one completed for that as well, which I'll post soon...

Tree Story #43: Things We Cannot See

"Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed everyday. For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don't look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever." 2 Corinthians 4: 16-18

tree story #126

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tree story #125

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tree quote #6

"Do not be afraid to go out on a limb ... That's where the fruit is." Anonymous

tree story #124

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tree story #123

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tree story #122

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tree quote #5

"Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world." Andy Warhol

tree story #121

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tree story #120

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tree story #119

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tree quote #4

"I love all trees, but I am in love with pines." Aldo Leopold

tree story #118

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tree story #117

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tree quote #3

"Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel." Aldo Leopold

tree story #116

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tree quote #2

"Look deep, deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything." Albert Einstein

tree story #115

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tree quote #1

I found a bunch of tree quotes somewhere on the web - now I'll have to go find out where - so I decided to share them here, little tree stories without pictures, at least right now...

"Give me a land of boughs in leaf, a land of trees that stand; where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land." A.E. Housman

tree story #114

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tree story #113

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tree story #112

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tree story #111

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tree story #110

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tree story #109

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tree story #108

With Eager Hope

"What we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)"

Romans 8:18-25

tree story #107

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tree story #106

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tree story #105

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tree story #104

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tree story #103

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tree story #102

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tree story #101

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tree story #100

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tree story #99

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tree story #98

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tree story #97: still singing

10 a.m. sunny, warm & clear. Songbirds singing, kids playing, voices echo in the quiet hills. No sign of life on the vines yet, grass & other little plants green up the ground. I wander around a bit and see about a half dozen mule deer carefully work their way along the west edge of the vineyards in the bordering oak woods where the light will be better later...

6 p.m. Light clouds coming in - little less intense light than last evening - cooling just a little, songbirds are still singing. Clouds shift, the earth moves around the sun, the light shifts and changes. Vineyard to the southwest, framed by trees and a stone wall.

Judith Monroe, Wanderings journal

tree story #96

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tree story #95: tahoe snow

Sunny, clear, warm, snow on the ground but no jackets required. Decided to take a day trip up to Tahoe - try to get a bit of snow in before it’s all gone. So little has fallen this year, there’s only about sixty percent of normal snow pack. And now it’s forecast to be quite warm this next full week. Highs in the valley are supposed to be nearly eighty today - Tahoe is predicted to be low sixty’s - certainly feels spring like. We’ve brought all our cold weather gear - all we really need are boots for tromping in the snow...

Just north of McKinney Bay - I have to climb up on top of the snow drift - occasionally stepping into knee deep snow - coming back toward the car I see the snow comes nearly to the edge of the lake. Getting there I step through a few more times, a little worried that I could catch my leg between rocks along the shoreline -

Judith Monroe, Wanderings journal

Tree Story #25: My Red Oak

(an update of an earlier post)


Breathe deep
and the subtle fresh fragrance fills you;

Listen quietly
and its silence envelopes you;

Swallow with eyes gently closed
and greenness tingles your taste buds;

Run your fingers down its trunk
and tangled layers of bark catch your skin;

Open your eyes to massive arms reaching up,
stretching out, shading confetti-colored blossoms
beneath ...
the red oak re-born.


Thank you for creating your space for others to enjoy ... and contribute to,
Gayanne Leachman

Tree Story #43: Things We Cannot See

Here's another installation that crosses over to my Heaven project...

Tree Story #43: Things We Cannot See

"Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed everyday. for our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don't look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever. " 2 Corinthians 4: 16-18

You can see more of the Visions of Heaven project at http://www.heavenartproject.blogspot.com/

spring oak #7

Another in my spring oak series of Polaroid transfers, this is Spring Oak #7, available as pigment prints, email for more details.

under spring oaks

Under Spring Oaks, another Polaroid transfer available as pigment prints...

spring oak #6

Spring Oak #6, available as hand embellished Polaroid transfer pigment prints...

spring oak #5

Polaroid transfer, "Spring Oak #5" available as pigment prints beginning at $65 matted.

Email me at judith@judthmonroe.com for more info.

Heaven: Tree Story #30

I've updated the original post for this tree story, but I thought it might be good to start adding a new post when a story gets paired with an image - to see more about this project, check out my Visions of Heaven blog at www.heavenartproject.blogspot.com. This tree story isn't there yet, but it will be, so much to do!

Tree Story #30: the Mustard Tree

The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard see planted in a field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but it becomes the largest of garden plants; it grows into a tree, and birds come and make nests in its branches.

Matthew 13: 31-32, see also Luke 13:18-19

spring oak #4

Spring Oak #4, another Polaroid transfer, this one is available as a pigment print, you can email me for details if you're interested.

tree story #94

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tree story #93

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tree story #92: ghost

It was just as she said it would be: the reddish light glancing off the hill, filtering through the summer’s yellowing grass. I was close to where the blue oak should be. “Stop,” I said, for no other reason than to hear a sound other than the scrub jays shrill retorts, the barb-wire twanging from a breeze somewhere along the fence’s many-miled length. I knelt to sit momma’s ashes down in the grass. Instead of the soft thud, porcelain against earth, there was a resounding thunk. I swept away pebbled dirt and wisps of straw-grass, to find— momma’s tree, leveled by something stronger than the 50 years that had passed since she was last here. A deep cleft scarred the trunk where lightning had broken it like a promise. I pulled the faded picture from my back pocket; the tree momma spent much of her childhood around now only existed on its yellowing surface. In the evening light, the blue oak seemed to shimmer and ghost across the film: gone was the knot where it had grown around the barb wire fence, metal sticking out its trunk like a rotted tooth; gone were the limbs stretching like compass points over the horizon to anywhere except here; gone was momma’s name carved with a chunk of broken glass; gone was momma’s wish to climb it one last time. The meadow swayed arid and dusty in the heat as I picked up the jar, the orange of the sunset arcing across the porcelain. I started to pull the top off the vase, then put it back on, tucked the vase under my arm and walked back across the field to my car. Momma had come too far to find out she could never go home.

Indigo Moor

Many thanks, my friend! jm

tree story #91

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Tree stories evolve

Been such a long time, but I am still working on this project, really, just sometimes in the background and in connection with other projects, too. In fact, the new Heaven project will have some tree stories in it, so I'll be sure to post the overlap. And I'll start posting some of my other tree work, too - just to keep things interesting...




Spring Oak #1, the alternate version... I've got a warmer version that's available as pigment prints, too.


Stay tuned folks, there's more to follow.