Tag: Trees

Ever kicked a black walnut down the sidewalk? Congrats, you're a seed dispersal agent! These golf ball-sized nuts seem designed for sidewalk soccer—and you're helping the next generation of trees survive.

This time of year is so lovely with the trees blooming. During my bike to Marianos, I regularly go through a park that absolutely no other humans ever walk through, given the odd location of the park. But I bike…

I'm really geeked out that I have five emails scheduled to go out on upcoming anniversaries for each person's town.

As I explore the idea of making magic sticks, I'll be using sticks I find anywhere. A variety would be nice.

I will be mailing this postcard to someone who has a tree, and I will name their tree after a U.S. President.

Did you know that Photoshop can draw instant trees?

I’m working on my front porch watching a woodpecker climb up our large Slippery Elm (aka Red Elm). It kinda scoots along the tree, looks in the bark, scoots along some more, looks in the bark. The way it scoots,…

Amidst the hectic tourists of Chicago’s Millennium Park lies a number of peaceful sections. A line of eight Sycamore trees is reminiscent of the Gardens of Versailles in France. This gallery of tress is one of my favorite quiet areas…

Every artist has their go-to methods when creativity runs dry. Tools like sketchpads. Working in locations like coffee shops. For me one of my methods is to make artwork to place on the front of Tribune Tower. 149 rocks from…

The sunlight hit just the red part of the tree blowing on the fire to give the blaze more life. The colors were saturated even more by the HDR photography of the ProHDR app on my iPhone. Originally I was…

I want to hang clouds from trees. Sorta like the clouds are ornaments. That will be a neat sight to see. How should I make the clouds? I made a poll on the Spudart Facebook Page. Please vote on the…

I came across this verse in Isaiah 55:12 and immediately thought of this video I shot last fall: You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you,…

What does styrofoam mean? Styro. You’d think that’s made up, right? Styrofoam is a trademark name by Dow Chemical Co. in 1950. It’s based from the word polystyrene. (see polystyrene) What does polystyrene mean? Etymonline.com says: 1927, so called because…

After reading “Why Climb a Tree?,” I’m on a quest to find a tree to climb. A year ago I was walking around my neighborhood trying to find a tree to climb. I didn’t find any climbable trees in my…

photo courtesy cathibeth, thanks cathie! I was looking for a creative question, and Cathibeth sent me the following: If the trees in Maine reach to the sky and grab ahold… what are they grabbing ahold of? Here’s a few of…

Funmaster Bernie De’Koven posted about shoe trees. One person would toss a pair of shoes onto a power line, and then other people would join in and throw more pairs of shoes up. The shoes would start to collect and…

How you answer this question is the real reason for this question.

At first I felt kinda bad for city trees when they would shovel snow off the sidewalks and up against the tree. “Oh no! The trees are being buried!” But actually this must help the trees. The water underneath would…

For some fun photos, run around a tree and take pictures. You’ll get some interesting results. Check out some photos I took outside Chicago’s brown line stop at Western Ave: https://www.spudart.org/photo/20041011/ I’m trying to decide which one of these to:…

Lisa and I ripped off all the branches on my Christmas tree (so the branches could fit into the recycling bags). Update 20 years later Some years, I’d keep up my tree so long that the needles were so brittle,…

Then the interviewee, Paulo Freire, from that same book replied,“Yes, yes, yes. Planting a tree can be also a creative and artistic job. Unbdoubtedly, the veery movement of the body in order to make the hole–there is ritual, there is…

There’s this neat section in a book i’m reading…“I have a friend who is an artist who said that he felt the most radical thing that he could do was to plant trees in the communities where there are no…