MIXED MEDIA

Sunday, January 20, 2013.  How long had this escaped my attention?  29 years?  This tree, and some unknown Parks worker, started this piece many years and the tree has engulfed the stranger that came to be pressed against its mighty and growing trunk.  Now I see this all along my walk and I recognize the shape and I recognize the tree and its unyielding need to grow.  Life will always find a way.

SPIKES

Monday, February 20.  Each spike is so deliberate, so forceful and so assured.  What do they bring to this tree, what protection or what attraction?  Does some bird store its catch here and then zealously guard it from other birds?  It doesn't look safe from other predators.  It screams 'do not climb me.'