tree art exhibit

Best of Show

Handmade Leather Boots
by Anika Jaan
Adult Category

Crochet Ginko Bonsai Tree
by Sylvia Webster
Youth Category

Visual Art (adult category)

Melissa Flores
First Place | Visual Arts Category

Alvis Jackson
Judge's Choice |
Visual Arts Category

Treavor Gouge
Honorable Mention |
Visual Arts Category

kayla kirkland

Photography

"Kwanson Cherry on Main St."
Annette Bryant
First Place | Photography

"Winter"
Byron Robinson
Second Place | Photography

Visual Arts (highschool)

madison metcalf

kaylyn fairchild

Madison Metcalf
First Place
High School Visual Arts

Kaylyn Fairchild
Second Place
High School Visual Arts

Jessica Swofford
Third Place
High School Visual Arts

jessica swafford

Visual Arts (middle school)

kiley palms

Kiley Palms
"Bonsai Tree in the Moonlight"
First Place
Middle School Visual Arts

Kaden Palms
"Puzzle Tree"
Second Place
Middle School Visual Arts

kaden palms

Visual Arts (elementary school)

noah barrier

cayden carson

Noah Barrier
"Lego Trees"
First Place
Elementary School Visual Arts

Cayden Carson
"Winter Trees"
Second Place
Elementary School Visual Arts

Gracelynn Smith
Tree and Redbird
Third Place
Elementary School Visual Arts

gracelynn smith

Poetry

First Place
From a Tree's Perspective
By Lily Combs
Winter
Branches, bare
My leaves have left me
Snow falls, covering me in a blanket of sorts
The world is quiet I feel like I could just... disappear
Spring
Snow has melted
Birds sing
Building their nests on my branches My leaves have grown back
Greener than ever
Summer
Hot
The sun beating down on my bark Dogs pant
Animals hide themselves in the shade of my leaves
I wish I could do the same
Fall
I'm starting to shed my leaves
They turn colors of red, orange, and yellow
Weather is turning colder
Animals start to prepare for hibernation, stuffing their faces
Flowers are all gone
Winter
Winter again
Animals have gone into hibernation Snow covers the ground once again Year's almost over
Time to do it all over again

Second Place
A Calm In The World
By Samantha Wild
The forest is an inspiring place and gives
peace to one's mind
The sounds, the sights, the smells
All natural, all peaceful, all calm
Bare, branchy trees are as claws reaching out from the dark depths of an abyss Small, orange leaves on a little, thin tree surrounded by the brown Autumn foliage
Shown like fireflies in the summer night
Grey, flat, soft, clouds in the dreary sky
give the feeling of being trapped inside
With nothing to do but watch on a rainy day I find the forest calming my busy mind from the responsibilities and expectations of life

The forest has sounds of calm water, wind in the sky, and the crunch of leaves I see tangled branches that
are as a kitten playing with a ball of yarn
The air is chilled and soft as one's cold, last breath

The calm water ripples over stones underneath like the ocean's waves rolling over shells on the
shore And the wind rippling through sprouts of moss on the trees are as an anemone waving in the sea

Third Place
Silent Limbs
By Sophie Pittman
From the serenity of the rosy-fingered
morning loomed a figure
Tall but gnarled, with twisted limbs
Once magnificent, now forgotten
That lay here, just slowly rotting
It looked to the sky as if to pray
With bare limbs outstretched
Bracing against the elements
A fighter for all
Without saying a word