I messed this one up a bit.  The lower left branch should have extended longer at the end.  I think I should have had the thicker lower branch a little shorter.  Ah well.

Note:  While making the line drawing and post, I listened to Astrocoast by Surfer Blood.

The trees don’t just grow in my neighborhood.  They are coaxed, scolded, urged, prodded, and pruned.

If it’s the aesthetic appearance of a tree weighed against people getting their electricity, the electricity-getters are gonna win.

I am relatively certain Tree #13 would be more than happy to spread out over the street, but my village has other ideas.

It’s okay, tree.  You’re beautiful.

Note:  Line drawing and post created while listening to the Le Tigre album This Island.

Note: While working on the above line pic, I was listening to the one poppy record Pere Ubu did, Cloudland.

 

I got the above pic done so quickly I didn’t even get to their hit of that record.

 

This is one of my neighbor’s trees, and it was a hard one.  Usually I plow ahead making these, but I actually restarted this several times.

Back in 2007 I had an idea to capture the essence of a tree’s branches into a series of straight black lines.  Seeing all the leaves back on the trees in the recent weeks made me want to revisit this feature.

Take a gander at all the Trees and Signs posts

Note:  The lines picture was created and the post was composed while listening to Starf*cker‘s great album Florida.