Trees Trees Trees

Trees Trees Trees

I have always been delighted by trees but am now more than ever captivated by them since reading Richard Power's novel "The Overstory" (twice) in 2019.

The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

“Autumn makes me think of leaves, which makes me think of trees, which makes me think of The Overstory, the best novel ever written about trees, and really, just one of the best novels, period.” — Ann Patchett

Some photographs I have taken over the past few years,

mostly in New York City parks and streets, plus a few in Spain, Portugal, and California.

Click on images to enlarge.