The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground~

A little message from Alley

Happy Holidays and may 2012 be the best of them all~

"Birthdays are natures way of telling us to eat more cake".

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."~ Henry David Thoreau

"There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and the truth."~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"One generation plants the Trees; another gets the shade. Keep a green Tree in your heart, and perhaps a singing bird will come."~ Chinese proverb

There is a never-ending cold breeze and the last leaf has fallen off all the trees. December is here.

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."~ Maya Angelou

Have been traveling so much the last couple of months... Can't wait to get home and finish working work on the new stripes, dabbing into watercolors again :-) "Where thou art, that is home."

~ Emily Dickinson