Nature's Art Trees have always fascinated us. As kids, we climbed them, over our parents' protest, right to the top just to see how far we could see. We snip and trim and manicure and train tiny limbs to become living art known as bonsai trees. We harvest and haul and mash trees into pulp that become ingredients for the paper we use for books and magazines and newspapers and bags for our groceries. We use lumber to build houses for shelter and houses for show.
Trees are many things to different people.
For my wife and I, they are more than just a crop to be harvested. They are living things, some as old as 4,000 years. We try to see the beauty in trees. Growing up in Washington, Idaho and Oregon had a profound influence on Ross as he used a camera to explore the forests, creeks, mountains and coastlines of the Northwest. Chris and Connie Jacobson call Redmond, WA home.