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/