TREES

A group devoted to the art of trees: free medium. Without trees the world would be dead and a place of disaster. With trees the world can tackle global warming. Hug a tree and you hug the earth, you hug yourself and your neighbors. Without trees, no love!

Without love, no trees.

A sequel to the mail art project SIGNS and STONES and TREES (of 1998).

Guido Vermeulen started this group. After his death the IUOMA members keep it alive with posting photos and drawings of TREES in memory of Guido.

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  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    A winter tree from Jane Martin in Mass. USA...watercolor postcard.

  • Heleen de Vaan

    Beautiful tree, Katerina!

    And thank you for your kind words.  It still is in my place, I'm preparing the envelop to forward it safely to Norma Soulet, maybe she can send it to you, before it will return to Bill @ the Olathe Post?

  • Amy Irwen

    Thought this was pretty cool and wanted to share

    https://www.facebook.com/1106602800/posts/10213001331643778/

  • Amy Irwen

    Sorry...link won't work...booooo !

  • Bill Porter

    Morning, Amy! The link worked for me (which is strange), but the image of the tree with the cloud was super! Thanks for sharing!!  ~Bill@TheOlathePoste

  • Amy Irwen

    Thanks Bill!!!!

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    Almond trees in Greece, Feb 20, 2019 "False Spring"

    Nikos Katzanzakis writes about the monk who says to the almond tree:

    " You scatter-brain almond tree, 

    if you blossom now in mid-winter,

    the snow will come and destroy you"...

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    Saturday, Feb 23, 2019 in northern Greece:

    "...Let it" says the almond tree, 

    every Spring :-)

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    Is that SNOW...or almond blossoms?

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    ning is going crazy...double/triple postings ...sorry,

    cannot "delete" :-(

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    oops, that is the Greek writer: Nikos KAZANTZAKIS (not KATZ :-)

    Zorba the Greek (1946)

  • Amy Irwen

    Wonderful photo of the the Sequoias in Cslifirnia

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2685752154785178&id...

  • Bill Porter

    Thought that I'd share this with you all... I painted this over the weekend. 

    Watercolor ~ untitled (for now).

  • Norma Soulet

    Love it, Bill!

  • Bradford

    (see Huemanism2)

  • Amy Irwen

    Awesome Bill *!*

  • Norma Soulet

    Hi Heleen,

    I received the Trees A&P and have worked on it and it is ready to go back home to Bill Porter.

    Just wanted to share here your lovely envelope. :)

    The Back of the Envelope:

    Thanks Heleen.

  • Heleen de Vaan

    Thank you for sharing, Norma, I'm happy it arrived wel!

    And looking forward to seeing your contribution :-)

  • Bill Porter

    Great envelope, Heleen! and thank you, Norma for sharing it!

    Bill

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    It's cherry pink...

    and apple blossom white :-)

    trees in bloom in Thess this week!

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    ...always early, too:

    almond trees blossoming in Greece

  • Sabela Baña

    Wonderfull Katerina Nikoltsou(Monkat)

  • Sabela Baña

    I received mail art of Pam MCVay .

  • Amy Irwen

    A beautiful piece Pam McVay *!*

  • Amy Irwen

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2714140725279654&id...

    An AP page started by Bill.Parsons...trees in honor of Guido.

    Any member want to be next? Let me know and I will send it your way.

  • Norma Soulet

    Hi Amy,

    I think you mean started by Bill Porter. :)

    I can work on it if you want to send it my way.

    Hugs,

    Norma

  • Amy Irwen

    Great Norma...

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    blossoming brambling bushes/ little trees...

  • Bill Porter

    Pam McVay's "Trees Across the Lake" arrived today. Nicely done, Pam, and thankfully, the USPS didn't clobber the image side too terribly bad.
    Thank you, Pam!!!

  • Pam McVay

    It does look a bit grungy, doesn't it?  Thanks for the photo!   Problem is that I like how cheap postcard stamps are!  Frugal me....

  • Norma Soulet

    Good morning!

    Yesterday, I received and A&P from Bill Porter and now it is done.

    Who would be interested in working on it, next?

    Please let me know.

    Thanks

  • Sabela Baña

  • Julian Foster

    Hi Norma Soulet and all in the Tree group,

    Add & Pass received. I shall make my mark.

  • Jennifer Jones (JJalltheway)

    Hi friends,

    I would love to receive the A&P also.

    The blossoming cherries all around me are an inspiration!

    Eagerly awaiting.

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    TREE Add/Pass? i would like one :-)

    Here are Spring trees from Hamburg:

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    At the Archaeological Museum of Athens:

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    ...and orange trees on the streets of Athens, bitter oranges falling and

    orange blossoms ...blooming :-)

  • Heleen de Vaan

    Beautiful photos, Katerina! 

    Here in the Amstelland both spring blossom and winter bold trees. Maybe hard to see because of the shadow and my tiny camera, but I guess inspiring for us, mail artists, though:

  • Amy Irwen

    Sabela, gorgeous trees!

  • Pam McVay

    This gorgeous tree arrived from Sabela Bana.  I am blown away by it's beauty!

  • Sabela Baña

    Thanks, Amy Irwen, Pam McVay.

  • Sabela Baña

    Beautil Photos Katerine

  • De Villo Sloan

  • Sabela Baña

    Vilo Sloan, preciosa foto.

  • Amy Irwen

    Love the tree photo De Villo Sloan....

  • Heleen de Vaan

    Special-shaped Tree (and Dutch mailbox) in the city of Nijmegen:

  • Bill Porter

    Great photo, Heleen. I'd say that that tree has lived a good long time and seen many a passerby. Thanks for sharing!

    Bill@TheOlathePoste