Trees

Trees appear in most of my books

from the 'singing tree' 

in Walk Two Moons

to the blackbird trees

in The Great Unexpected

My characters, like me,

climb them

hide in them

hug them

kiss them

swing from them

leap from them

and

on one occasion

(do you know which book?)

chop one down

(sorry)

I

love

trees

Tall ones

short ones

skinny ones

fat ones

young and old

green and yellow

flowery and plain

Love those trees!

From every writing corner or room

I've ever worked in

at least one tree

has stood outside 

my window.

Last week in Maine

I entered the most beautiful gallery showing:

Joyce Tenneson's

Trees and the Alchemy of Light

Mixed media pieces:

photographs transformed 

with gold leaf

About thirty in all

at the Dowling-Walsh Gallery*

in Rockland, Maine

*Although the show has ended, some pieces remain in the gallery;

you can also learn more about Joyce Tenneson here