quercus woodland #5

Polaroid transfer and mixed media collage on 6x6" canvas - contact for availability

quercus woodland #4

Polaroid transfer and mixed media collage on 6x6" canvas - contact for availability

quercus woodland #3

Polaroid transfer and mixed media collage on 6x6" canvas - contact for availability

quercus woodland #2

Polaroid transfer and mixed media collage on 6x6" canvas - contact for availability

quercus woodland #1

My latest artistic adventure - trees on canvas - this is part of Quercus Woodland, a multi-canvas mixed media work. (Individual canvases available.) To see the behind the scenes story, check out my Wanderings blog.

tree quote #9

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." - Charles Dickens

tree story #134

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tree story #133

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tree story #132

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Tree Story #30: The Mustard Tree

I can't believe I didn't post this yet (okay, I guess I can believe it - but I really meant to post this sooner!) This is another crossover piece from Visions of Heaven -

Tree Story #30: The Mustard Tree

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed 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)

Besides being available as an original artwork, "The Mustard Tree" is available as limited edition pigment prints:
8x10" (matted to 11x14") - $65
11x14" (matted to 16x20") - $125
16x20" (matted to 20x24") - $250
20x24" on 24x32" paper - $500

tree lovers' story

This is a finished tree story of a sort - not one of my formal "Tree Stories" but still - the image is actually tree story #52, but I made up my own story of sorts, a love story, which I tell in a fairly small format (about 5x6") which would make a sweet Valentine for any tree lover. If you're interested in such things, email me...

tree story #131

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tree story #130

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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/