Each year (or so) I take photos of all my trees. It’s easy to loose track of how much things change. Looking at a tree I’ve had for years I can’t really imagine it looking like much of anything else. When I pull up a photo of it 3 years ago it’s quickly aparent how much it has changed. It’s satisfying to see the fruits of my labor spelled out so clearly.

It’s not really my intention that anyone browse through all these photos - they are more for my own use; a documentation of where I was with each tree as of a certain date. Here are just a few of the 134 photos (I don’t have that many trees, but I took several of each) I took.

You can browse just the highlights if you want - there are about 40 photos that I’ve marked as being most interesting.

Looking back at some of these trees always gives me a bit of a smile. Earlier this year, just after our spring show, I posted a collection of photos of club trees going back a few years. Here are a few of my own trees looking back over a bit of time.

My first tree

Here you can see in the photo on the left a little juniper twig. These were my first trees at my previous apartment before I had a yard. Going from left to right, you can see that little twig turn into the little cascade it is today. It’s not that big of a deal, but I keep this tree to remind me how much I’ve learned. These photos are from 2002, Jan 2003, Dec 2003, Aug 2004, Mar 2005, and May 2006.

A flowering crab apple (Jan 2003, Dec 2003, Mar 2004, Aug 2004, Mar 2005, Mar 2006, and May 2006)

A valley oak (Jan 2003, Dec 2003, Aug 2004, May 2006)

European Beach (Jan 2003, Dec 2003, Aug 2004, May 2006)

San Jose Juniper (Dec 2003, Aug 2004, Mar 2006, May 2006)

Juniper (Aug 2004, May 2006)

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