Trees to paper to trees.

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I saw these three tree designs in a book on applique stitchery and they looked such fun I couldn't resist giving them a try - but remembering years of accidentally stitching my needlework projects to my school tunic, I decided I'd be better off working with paper and scissors. An excellent form of therapy for anyone with packrat tendencies. I can now justify all those old magazines that I Just Can't Throw Away.

Why God made trees.

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He had innumerable reasons, but I'm sure this is one of them. Sometimes I look around me at the garbage strewn around, at the strays, at the unsmiling faces. Sometimes I'm down. And then He says to me, "Look up."

 

(These are pictures I took one sunny Sunday afternoon in early March, walking home. These trees, and more like them, form a canopy all the way down my street).