
D. H. Lawrence Tree

by Joe Schofield
Title
D. H. Lawrence Tree
Artist
Joe Schofield
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Description
"The big pine tree in front of the house, standing still and unconcerned and alive...the overshadowing tree whose green top one never looks at...One goes out of the door and the tree-trunk is there, like a guardian angel. The tree-trunk, the long work table and the fence."
DH Lawrence
The Lawrence Tree is a painting by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1929 of a large ponderosa pine tree on the D. H. Lawrence Ranch in Taos County, New Mexico. The tree still survives (as of 2017), and may be visited at the Lawrence Ranch.
D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Lawrence lived in a cabin near the tree, under which the author sat on a weathered bench and wrote on a table.
"For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive."
Camera in hand, I lay on the bench. I imagine it to be the same spot D.H. spoke of. I look up at this pine he once looked upon. Now, taller by decades, perhaps even more majestic. And I dream. And I imagine the great literary mind at work, here, in this very space...
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May 28th, 2019
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Steven Bateson
The New Mexico Land of Enchantment Group is honored that you chose to submit your work to the group and we are proud to feature your magnificent image on the Homepage in the Featured Images.