I had intended to make this post about trees in general, - showing a number of different types I'd drawn while cataloging my efforts to point out their varied structures. Looking at this one pine was enough though, - this tree was the right one! I'd eyed it in the past but for one reason or another I'd missed doing it several times. Had I never drawn it, I'd be mourning.
This tree along with a few smaller, stood for years near our doctor's parking lot, breaking the cold west wind in winter, casting soft shadows in hot summer days. Imagine a slow moving woman returning to what could have been a boiling car to catch her breath after some cosmic news. Good or bad, that tree would have helped. Now it's gone.
It stood in the way of, - yes, a larger parking lot! The doctor is gone, his office demolished, - a nearby business needed to expand. The clear cutting must have something to do with insurance or a limited budget. It's certainly easier to bring in the dozers to make it all smooth, open and clean, - so, no complications, no problems, - and no tree!
You can see I had time, so no hurried sketch, no rush to another errand. I really enjoyed drawing it, getting to know it. Glad I did!
"The purpose of life is to remember." Henry Miller
"It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is." Robinson Jeffers
"It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is." Robinson Jeffers
