Imagine a photographic series where the subjects are your neighbors and friends. The Madrona Moments project has been all of that and more. I am fortunate to have several of these beautiful northwest favorites on the property where I live, and making a study of the fascinating patterns that occur each year as their thin layers of reddish brown bark fracture has been a labor of love for many seasons.
Some property owners call them weeping trees as, depending on the time of year, they work to clean up the mess of blossoms, flaking bark, hard and brittle leaves in great profusion, or berries that squash and stain walkways and decks. But my wife and I wouldn’t trade these nearly magical trees for any other variety. The images here represent part of an on going study that begins again every August when the bark starts to crack and peel.
