Kraft+ DT post - August 2017 Tree

Hello again Scrappy Friends, welcome to August where today I'm sharing a DT post for
KRAFT+

The challenge is to scrap about a tree, it can be a special tree to you, or trees in general.  
Be inspired by the mood board and let your imagination run free.

I chose to use a photo of a favourite tree of mine.  It's in the Flinders Ranges and it's called the Cazneaux tree. The photographer is Jacqui Barker from Port Lincoln.  I purchased the image and she has graciously given permission for me to use it on this page.

I extended the landscape by painting with Tim Holtz oxide distress inks.

The journalling is on the back and it reads:-

My early years were spend on a farm in the mid North of South Australia and I relished the space, freedom and quiet which surrounded me.  Although this tree is not one I climbed as a child, it's majesty reminds me so much of the avenue of gums which lined the track from the main road to our farm house.  One particular grand old lady was my favourite; I'd clamber up, with an apron full of fruit and my big Sister's Golliwog, to wait for her to come home from school.  Our neighbour used to bring her to the beginning of our track with a pony and trap.

One day when I was about four, I was in deep trouble with Mum.  I can't remember what I'd done to cause her ire, but when she said, "Just wait until your Father gets home" I decided that nothing good would happen to me when he arrived and I'd better run away.  I shimmied up the tree and waited, and waited and waited, for at least 20 hours before I heard the old buckboard wheezing up the track.  No one called my name, no one came looking for me and  it started to get dark.  My stomach was rumbling as I tentatively slid down the trunk and snuck toward the lobby.  I slunk inside, expecting the strap to appear. "Where have you been?" asked Dad.  "I ran away because you were coming home to get cranky at me."  With a tiny glint in his eye, he said "Well I think you've punished yourself enough - you'd better hop up and eat your tea".   What an anti-climax!  

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