Deer, Deer Everywhere yet they are not eating the multiflora roses. This year the deer demolished our peach tree, we had 11 beautiful peaches but the deer went through the fence and left us one. I planted tomatoes and kiwi berries (Which are one of my favorite northern fruits) and the deers ate them up! Plus the rhubarb plant, holly, pitcher plant, and sedums. Grr...they did not eat the rosemary, bleeding hearts, thyme and sage. Or, the numerous multi-flora rose bushes which are a prominent subject in this woodcut.

Deer are having a negative dramatic effect on forests. They eat all the understory, so trees don't have a chance to grow. I wonder what our forests are going to look like a few hundred years from now when many of our large trees die of old age, and there are no new trees to replace them? The multiflora roses are also a major problem. A walk in the woods could turn into a walk into a large thorny patch.

I wanted to pay homage to the city of Ithaca in this woodcut since I love my home. There is a little Cornell in the background, though, you may notice something just doesn't seem right, hint, the title of the piece, "A View from Llenroc."

color-reduction woodcut
image size 27.5” x 17”
$650 unframed

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