In her Christmas card, my friend Sharon Feathers included a sprig of northern White Cedar. The sprig was loose in the card so I decided to give it a little friendly "framing" on this card using a little Zentangle. (Hubby will get this card for his birthday next Thursday).
Incidentally I checked the name of the sprig by taking a photo of it with iNaturalist, an app that another friend, Jim Killian, showed me this fall. I have fallen in love with this app. Thank you Jim!!!
About two summers ago I fell in love with a little book called The Hidden Life of Trees. I know I blogged about that at the time. And then just this fall I heard Richard Powers being interviewed on PBS about his book The Overstory. I knew I had to read it. Trees again.
This is a Pulitzer Prize winning book. I am about 1/3 of the way through it...and I was reading it this afternoon when Autumn sent me this photo from her hike through a nearby park. Nice old oak with branches covered with "Resurrection Fern".
There is some serious serendipity going on around here!
And I highly recommend the book!
There must be some trees waiting to be sketched out there, don't you think?
We leave tomorrow for Savannah (in the rain unfortunately) and it appears we'll have rain the whole time we are there. Headed then to my sister's in SC and she does NOT have rain. Christmas Day will be around 66 there. Not too bad.
We will be back again next weekend. Just a short trip.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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