I spent a wonderful Easter Sunday revelling in the Moreton Bay Fig trees of Santa Monica's La Mesa Drive. These trees are the very flamboyant relatives of our more modest Ficus trees. Here they form a crescent shaped avenue in a select street made up of houses built mainly in the 1920's and 30's- with many designed by renowned architects- but the houses are eclipsed by the trees:
An Artist- and child of Artists who were mad about trees- I have always been mad about trees. The stories of my involvement with trees will gradually emerge- that is the purpose of the blog. I get such intense joy from the visual experiences of my surroundings- amazing trees/ birds/ flowers/ landscapes/ seascapes/ buildings- that I want others to experience that joy too.
After living with British trees all my life, I was overwhelmed with the beauty and strangeness of the trees in Santa Monica when I first spent some months here in 2004. I immediately wanted to make a home in Santa Monica in order to translate these trees into Art. That’s what I have been trying to do ever since, as I travel backwards and forwards between the US and the UK.
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