Pic Today 11/10/12

ARMOR PLATED

WALNUT TREE

There's a tree here

that stands out from the others.

Silver against the autumn colors

of every other tree.

It's artist, Robert Lobe, 

who found this long dead

walnut tree trunk,

and hammered sheets of heavy gauge

annealed aluminum all around.

And fastened it with

stainless steel hardware.

So this walnut tree lives on, magnificently,

shining bright in the fall sun.

A sculptural echo

of a Missouri walnut tree.