Peanut, Annie and their Wise Old Tree

Had a severe case of cabin fever the other day.

 So I bundled up the munchkins, packed some food

 in a basket and we drove to our favorite park way out in the woods. 

After everyone ran around crazy for awhile,

we all settled onto a picnic table and opened some

new packs of colorful clay I had saved for such an occasion.

 

It was suggested by my youngest that we should make fairytale mushrooms!

 

Here are two of them...

what better detail to add to a wise old tree

where childhood dreams take flight...and made by a child no less

 

 

Mushrooms were made by my children.
Woody Woodpecker lunchbox, thermos, baloney sandwich and apple made by thecornershack.
 God made the rock and moss.
 I made the tree. 

 

With all the twists, turns and surprises in the road,

 it seems as if we have been traveling together forever 

But now that Peanut and I are nearing our

destination...the time has been too short...

 

Below, Peanut is preparing herself for hair styling and school clothes.

 Wish I looked this good in the morning before dressing and hair combing lol.

Baby Raggedy Annie looking for a hug! 

Another reason why I love red hair on little girls.

 

Even though this Old Tree had a loooong way to go yet,

 I wanted to get a good picture of his adoring face!

 Alas, that expression was not for me, but rather

it is meant for a little girl named Peanut

 who climbs up into his branches

every day after school. 

 

 

While working on a Wise Old tree Person

who will happen to have a little Peanut sitting up in his branches,

my little 'Jemima' is helping me put on the first layer of paint!

See that flat grey rock way down there to the bottom right?

Right over there next to the edge of Mill Creek ...

the one that seems to not quite fit in with the rest

of the lovely but ordinary river rocks?

 

 Well, THAT'S the rock which now holds steady Friend Tree

 and has become part of a very grand art project!

Wire roots will be wrapped then sculpted

  around this very handsome river rock.