just like a leaf on a branch in a TREE, this is one of many, each unique in their own way, ones of whimsy and ones from reality, ones drawn from pictures that friends posted to my wall, and more than one from my yards. Thanks Forest Friends for making this journey something more and worth sharing. And all those who have parts of the Forest in their homes((hugs)). Thanks to my wife, KC, for watching and loving the TREES and to Alissa Rose, for a thought. TREE ON!!!

and but a moment seems to have past and life with all its tiny preciousness, miracle, beauty, darkness, folly and wonder will continue on and on some more and that is the magic. TREE ON!!!

past and back and done and gone is yesterday and the shade of then is the shade of now. I looked back at Tree 3 and this is the shade from that yesterday. TREE ON!!!

somewhere in the tiny tiny night of another day a shiny shiny bright sound comes a visiting on the breeze. I lean closer closer to hear what I am hearing and I am hearing it and it makes since because through the long long years it remains the truth, "NoMatterWhat". TREE ON!!!!

in the bottom of the drawer, miss matched, darned, stretched out, many shoes it has worn. That is about a sock and this is a TREE and this is a drawing of missed matched thoughts about a place that is a forest, a dream on paper that came to life because the whimsy and fancy of a child "you should draw a TREE everyday, grandpa". Thank you my dear sweet, Alissa Rose. TREE ON!!!

turn and it is what it is going to be and I believe. Open your eyes so you can look, so you see and I believe. Dream inside the sky of magic, wake inside the dream under the sky mechanical and I believe. TREE ON!!!

in a single breath, the beat of a heart, the blink of an eye there, the slightest breeze, the thundering rain storm is the ever flowing exchange of energy creating the magic that is the peace in the moment.TREE ON!!!

and so it is with life, and the few seconds it will take you to read this, and the last minute, the past hour, this morning, last night, yesterday, the day before yesterday, last week, last month, last year and you look up from what it is you were doing and your hands are tired and aged and the scars and spots are the memories of joy, laughter, sorrow, pain hopefully a full life and you remember because that is what it is, memory and the passing of time, blink and Poof! TREE ON!!!

comfy and cozy and warm and hidden away from the mad rush of life and all it's crazy, spinning energy....quiet and lazy and feel alright....happy once more. TREE ON!!!

tomorrow is that place of dreams, make believe and silence. TREE ON!!!

lazy little breeze joins together with the shade and I listen stretching out and drift away, away to the place in a dream. Just the other side of all that I know and drifting breezy, shady peace. TREE ON!!!

"plan on getting old" that is what I would tell my younger self if I could go back and have a word with him. That would be a good laugh for a long afternoon of sitting under a tree with my love. Oh, all the things that matter today. TREE ON!!!

oh, the wind brings a rhythm, oh, the wind it does sing, oh, the day is as long as the day is long. oh the stars of the night sky go on and on and on so bright, oh, I love to be and see and dream and that is what it is for me, oh. TREE ON!!!

lifting up to the sky and chased away in the clouds falling down to the Earth washing away another days dusty remains, like a dream it was, leaving a sweet perfume, fresh, healing, cleansing. TREE ON!!!

and it is only two minutes what should three hundred forty nine mean to the floating bones of graffiti and smoking as they slide away down the long corridor following each shredder skating in slow motion when taking an elevator will be quicker to the shop of shops of treasures of old of varied hides a rhyme from the Dude. You would know if the dream told you and it was only a dream. TREE ON!!!

in the shade of an old tree lay your head to the Earth and there is a quiet, unlike silence, peace, drifting away to where it all began, to where it has always been and where it will forever be. TREE ON!!!

Tree 347: ~Life is Like that~ and it is strange and dark and beautiful and full of turns ya never see and sudden stops and many different wondrous, hope filled days and nights and cheer and heartbreak and getting back on that horse and that is how we get to where we are. and that is how the cookie crumbles. And there is always hope and the dawn brings a new day and some new challenges and life finds a way because, Life is Like that. TREE ON!!!

always dream. It's been said to dance and sing like no one is watching, dream big, reach for the stars but keep your feet on the ground, live right now, keep your head up and always dream. TREE ON!!!