August 2008
I am about to start building something out in the forest. Not too deep. Just behind the barn a bit, but still boxed by trees for the most part.
I want lots of glass. Or plexiglass. And a fireplace. Just someplace really cool to sit and think and be lost in the trees.
August 2006
I recently moved from Virginia to Maine. The Pine Tree State.
I have 5 wooded acres now, as opposed to 7 1/2 acres of hayfield. Much better.
Unfortunately I had to leave behind the most perfect Christmas Tree I planted a couple years ago in Virginia - it was a Norway Spruce. Perfect.
Meanwhile, I am digging trees out of the forest and transplanting them throughout my yard where I think they will be happier, hide me from the world, and maybe they'll get a better chance for sun and air.
July 2003
I just lost a very very large Black Walnut tree in the recent July 1 windstorm/hailstorm that blew through Waynesboro. I am very sad.
Oh well.
I guess now I have enough Black Walnut to make many many guitars and basses.
People who get to know me always get around to the same question:
"What is it about you and trees?"
I'm not sure I know the answer exactly, but I just like trees.
Maybe it's because they're each so unique (and I think they like it
that way). Or maybe it's because they're good listeners. The best place
to be when you're by yourself. Not a bad place to be when you're with
somebody you love, either.
And they always look good on the side of a river, don't you think?
What's a river without trees? A hot, boring mosquito pool, that's what.
My point, exactly.
I don't want to study them, or even learn their names, necessarily.
I just like to look at them. Photograph them. Touch them.
There are lots of tree pictures elsewhere on this site.
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