An annual work conference takes me to various cities around the country. Some cities have been amazingly cool centers of human civilization, but most others are places that had never been high on my bucket list. Really, I’m going for… Read More »lostlandscape does dallas
There’s this dead tree outside my weekday office. A crew has been working on it for the last two weeks. It’s one of three very dead trees that make up an 1986 installation by Terry Allen. Set in an area… Read More »keeping your dead tree healthy
Photographing a tree can present some challenges. You can walk around it to select the best angle, or pick a time of day with the best lighting conditions, but you still have to deal with the fact that the tree… Read More »one way to photograph a tree
The record heat in October and November finally did in the Australian tree fern that I’d been nursing. The plant grows in full sun in its native environment, and was supposed to be able to survive full sun in coastal… Read More »deciding on a small tree
I was heading back to my desk at work on Thursday and noticed a cluster of my coworkers looking out a window. There’s a little access road right outside. Usually it doesn’t have a full-grown eucalyptus tree fallen across it,… Read More »treefall
If a tree talks in the woods and no one’s around to hear it, does it make a sound? Tuesday morning I had my choice of places to view the televised inauguration of Barack Obama or ways to hear the… Read More »talking trees
Few ideas are simpler: Plant a tree. Shade your house. Reduce your cooling expenses. Reduce global warming. A current program that’s giving away shade trees for free is coming out of the California Center for Sustainable Energy. Customers of San… Read More »shady deal