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Picturing Winter Trees 2020

We're curating a community collection of winter trees! Send us your images along with attribution for the work you are sharing and any other details you’d like to include. We will continue accepting new submissions through January 10.

"Winter scenes at Crystal Lakes, Missouri" — Rob Hileman

"Winter scenes at Crystal Lakes, Missouri" — Rob Hileman

Jennifer Talbott

"Sunset 1/5/21 Leavenworth County, KS" — Susan Wolfe

"A tree-walker." — Ying Zhu

"Hoarfrosted berries on a tree in Northern Minnesota, November 2020." — Sara Johnson

"Hoarfrosted berries on a tree in Northern Minnesota, November 2020." — Sara Johnson

"A week after we buried my grandma in November, her backyard was dressed in hoarfrost that lasted several days." — Sara Johnson

"River Birch in the freezing fog, January 2021, Overbrook, Kansas" — William C. Clawson

Winter trees seen from the window of my Lecompton house. My husband, Troy, took the picture. — Amanda Martin-Hamon

Winter trees seen from the window of my Lecompton house. My husband, Troy, took the picture. — Amanda Martin-Hamon

Winter trees seen from the window of my Lecompton house. My husband, Troy, took the picture. — Amanda Martin-Hamon

"A pure land." — Amy Su

"A pure land." — Amy Su

"At dusk." — Ann Schofield

"Honey-locust protected by fearsome thorns. Known from about 30 counties in eastern Kansas in the late 1800s, this species now occurs in all 105 counties, its spread aided by planting and fire suppression." — Craig Freeman

"American elms festooned with American mistletoe. Mistletoe is a parasitic plant found on more than 60 species of hardwoods and most easily spotted during the winter." — Craig Freeman

Jinying Zhan

Jinying Zhan

"Japansese Maple"— Jinying Zhan

"North Esplanade Park in Leavenworth, Kansas. North Esplanade Park along the Missouri River was the first "official" city park in Leavenworth, Kansas, the First City of Kansas." — Melissa Bower

osteon: bone from the Greek/ sperma: seed from the Greek/ Juniperus osteosperma/ the Latin name tells us much/ about the Utah juniper/ notice the clusters of hard round seeds/ a miniature world in a cutting—/ a staghorn coral/ growing in open air,/ a bitter sappy smell/ like Greek wine/ — Judith Major

"Splashy sunrise, full of promise and potential." — Casey Mesick Braun

"Textures at Clinton State Park." — Casey Mesick Braun

"Looking up at the KU Field Station. They swayed and creaked, even with the slightest breeze." — Casey Mesick Braun

Mike McCaffrey

Judith Major

"Mid morning light across a Chinese Elm, Bur Oaks and fruit trees, after a freeze. Jan 20 The end and beginning of a disquieting year." — A.Mary Kay

"Young Burr oak trees planted some 20 years ago. Dec 2020." — A.Mary Kay

"Young Burr oak trees planted some 20 years ago. Dec 2020." — A.Mary Kay

"Two eagles in tree." — Mike McCaffrey

"Tree hugger." — Mike McCaffrey

"This Winter, as I walk to and from the University, I've been mesmerized by the way in which the light illuminates and seems to "fill up" trees, houses, and spaces in general. To me, the Sycamore in this painting seems so full of life (because of the light) during a time of year associated with death. I suppose I love that contradiction or the possibility that it could be both simultaneously." — Michael McCaffrey

Luke Jordan

Luke Jordan

Luke Jordan

"First snow Window view 11/25/2018" — Peter G. Thompson

Orleans, MA — Joshua L. Rosenbloom

Orleans, MA — Joshua L. Rosenbloom

Aftermath of freezing rain, Lawrence, KS — Joshua L. Rosenbloom

"Holes, or "sapwells" in a birch tree, created by Yellow-bellied sapsuckers, a type of woodpecker. The birds feed on the sap of over 1,000 types of trees, but have a strong preference for birch trees. Image: Wikimedia Commons, Cephas, 2009." — KU Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum

"American Sycamore (bark), Wikimedia Commons, Jim Thomas, 2006. Sycamores have distinctive bark, which is gray or tannish brown and patchy at the base of the tree, becoming almost entirely white near the top of the tree and along the branches." — KU Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum

"Tree Fog" — Clint Paugh

"Minnesota oak tree with ice melting from the bottom up. December 2018." — Janie Allen

Winter fog — Ryan Waggoner

Paula Hauser Leffel

"I took this photo in the winter of 2019 one evening when letting my dog Daphne in from romping in the snow." — Elizabeth Kanost

"Sparkling Trees" — Rusty Leffel

"Plaza Christmas Lights" — Rusty Leffel

"Into the woods by our home, Dec. 2020." — Kelly Banks

"My first apartment out of college was up 3 flights of narrow stairs and didn't have much space for a tree, so we made do." — Kelly Banks

Icy branches outside my window. — Alexis Fekete-Shukla

From a performance in North Dallas at St Andrew UMC. — Arthur Jones

From a performance in North Dallas at St Andrew UMC. — Arthur Jones

"Winter in Kansas" — Lauren Cunningham

"You can hear the silence." — Kristy McKinney

"The Winter Underground. December 12, 2015." — Adina Duke

"A cloud factory beneath a lava lake churns out new clouds. A tree is born of a fissure of rock. Volcanoes National Park, December 11, 2015." — Adina Duke

"The Tachau/Lawrence branch smuggled in a cheat sheet for the Franklin Family Reunion." — Adina Duke

“Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy” — Heather McGee

Doug Brown

Doug Brown

“Along the Kansas River at Lawrence” — Rick Mitchell

“Along the Kansas River at Lawrence” — Rick Mitchell

"Rocky Mountain National Park" — Rick Mitchell

“I love focusing on details. There is so much to see, even in winter, if only you look!” — Micah Naeger

“I love focusing on details. There is so much to see, even in winter, if only you look!” — Micah Naeger

“I love focusing on details. There is so much to see, even in winter, if only you look!” — Micah Naeger

"January 13th 2019, along 22nd Street, rural Jefferson county." — Zane Richards

"January 4th, taken out in the pasture on the family farm, rural Jefferson county." — Zane Richards

"Fall meets Winter. Late November 2019." — Clint Paugh

Terry Evans, "Bur Oak, Winter 2019"

Anita Ciprian Allison, "Trees," oil on canvas, 1960

Dale A. Hartley, "Winter Pastel," mixed media on canvas board, 16" x 20"

"This photo was taken in 2019 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas." — Arin Yoon

Saralyn Reece Hardy

"A picture of an old walnut tree outside my parents' home, taken one holiday. It now serves as the wallpaper on my phone and a regular reminder of family and home." — Alexis Fekete-Shukla

Mother Tree-Stanley Park in Vancouver Canada. — Emily Elder Cramer

Snowy tree perspectives. — Cortney McKay

Snowy tree perspectives. — Cortney McKay

Snowy tree perspectives. — Cortney McKay

first Christmas (painting by Laura Klocke - 1984)

Thessa - Christmas tree (photo by Laura Klocke 1988)

“This is a photograph I took after an ice storm in rural Douglas County on Feb. 9, 2001. The ice-covered grasses made a chiming sound in the light wind. The trees are now gone.” — Steve Goddard

“These are mostly "trees" in the broader - or smaller - sense. "Small concert" was taken in Minnesota, and the rest were taken in Lawrence during the past several years.” — Bill Dentler

“These are mostly "trees" in the broader - or smaller - sense. "Small concert" was taken in Minnesota, and the rest were taken in Lawrence during the past several years.” — Bill Dentler

“These are mostly "trees" in the broader - or smaller - sense. "Small concert" was taken in Minnesota, and the rest were taken in Lawrence during the past several years.” — Bill Dentler

"Among my projects during the Pandemic has been a series of abstract woods based on my own photography." — Lloyd "Patrick" Emerson

"Among my projects during the Pandemic has been a series of abstract woods based on my own photography." — Lloyd "Patrick" Emerson

"Among my projects during the Pandemic has been a series of abstract woods based on my own photography." — Lloyd "Patrick" Emerson

<a href='https://spencerartapps.ku.edu/collection-search#/object/10928' target='_blank'><i>Trees, Chicago</i> by Harry Callahan</a>