On our way to La Capitale last night we passed this gorgeous tree, which has been strewn with blue streamers for National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
I’ve seen Christo’s gates in New York, I’ve been to exhibitions of his drawings of the Reichstag wrap in Berlin and I’ve even wrapped some trees myself as a young art student.
How touching to see fabric used in nature for a purpose other than aesthetics. Whatever the purpose of the streamers, this tree does what all good art does. It stopped us fast in our tracks and interrupted our evening — in the best of ways.
If you pass the tree around 7:00, you can see the moon vying for attention in the East. And as we left La Capitale about an hour later, we were present to watch a single streamer fly through the air and sweep across our car before settling on the ground.
