Juror's Statement
Trees help us celebrate the passing seasons. In spring, they cheer us with their many shades of emerging green leaves and radiant flowers. In summer, they provide shade from the searing sun. In fall, their changing colors take our breath away as we gather their nuts, fruits, cones and pods. And in winter, they show us their strength and character—bare branches against a stark landscape, evergreen boughs weighed down with snow, or a sense of gesture that reveals their growth habit, age or encounters with storms.
-Lee Anne White