Category: Trees

As I continue to say in these stories, we are blessed to live so near the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois.

This picture of a red maple, taken in October 2022, as the Fall colors began to emerge, is next to Lake Marmo, one of our favorite places in the Arboretum.

We walked around the lake that day and from the side opposite the tree we saw, and captured, this beautiful tree and its reflection in the water.

Another picture taken that day that appears in our Etsy Shop is Landscape – Untitled #49.

This is a companion picture to Landscape – Untitled #1, both of which were taken October 9, 2011. They are in the setting of the sunrise at Coffee Creek Watershed Preserve near Chesterton, Indiana.

There is parking off of Indiana Highway 49 on the east side of Coffee Creek. From there, immediately to the west there is a hill. On the top of the hill is a tree and a bench. In this picture, I’ve captured the moment when the rising sun just breaks over the top of the hill. It really was a beautiful, serene sunrise that day. I’m so glad I was able to get these colorful, radiant effects of the sun that morning. We hope you enjoy it and they speak to you in a unique way.

In May 2011, a friend and I took our cameras to the property of a mutual friend. We simply wandered in the woods taking pictures. I have often found myself, as is evidenced by some other images in our Etsy Shop “AbbasImages,” being near a tree or group of trees and just looking up. I couldn’t tell you why, really, but I’m drawn to consider the height and grandeur of trees in that moment and consider the forces it or they had to overcome to reach into the sky the way they do; and then to sustain and endure season after season. Inspiring.