Today I'm sharing another of the block prints I created for the new Pomegranate Communications boxed card set: Trees. This is one of my favorites; I have loved the Garry oaks, or Oregon white oaks ever since I first noticed them driving down Interstate 5 past Ft. Lewis, south of Olympia. They used to be quite widespread as native Americans preserved the open sunny meadows they needed to thrive by burning the Douglas firs and other conifers that invaded and threatened to turn their sunshine into shade. The oak mast was a very important food source, as were the camas bulbs that grew beneath the oaks. The print celebrates the famous heritage tree in Oregon that grows at Witness Tree Vineyards. The Witness Tree was there when the first white settlers came in the 19th century to these beautiful rolling hills just west of Salem.
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