Ghost Trees

Ghost Tree placed and night uplighted at a private residence in Central Oregon - spirit arising.

And because matter hungers for form, from form into form it passed— ...

— Jessica Fisher

Ghost Trees dis/placed at Pronghorn Resort and Golf Club & its Hotel/Spa known as Juniper Preserve, a few miles east of Bend.

Pronghorn Resort features thousands of plants, trees and grasses pilfered from adjacent federal land (250 acres of BLM in 2005-2006), according to a 2009 lawsuit by the U.S. government -- a complaint settled simultaneously by Pronghorn for $200,000 in 2009. "The vegetation helped give a desert-like appearance" to the two Pronghorn golf courses opened in 2004. (Sources: Oregonian and Bend Bulletin, 2009)

Ghost Tree installed at a private residence in Central Oregon. Several landscaping companies offer delivery and installation of Ghost Trees. As Source Landscaping claims: “The Central Oregon scenery inspires our design philosophy, and we’re 99% sure we started the ghost tree trend in Bend.” 

Ancient Juniper in a natural landscape, a "Ghost Tree" on BLM; federal lands in the public domain, country once the traveling, gathering and marked places of indigenous peoples. Numerous cultural placed-stones and temporary shelters appear in the vicinity of this Juniper, Central Oregon.

Juniper bowing in fire country. 

Ghost Tree resurrecting as Shoe Tree, a place of pilgrimage for the devoted.

Every artifact, every natural object, with its ghostly wrapping of associations and meanings, begotten and forgotten, is a gathering of minds or contending voices: everything is an invisible assembly. 

— Robert Pinsky

Ghost Shoe, a singular relic in a sage expanse.

NOTES

— Photos D. Beauchamp 2022

— Jessica Fisher from The Hunger for Form in her poetry collection Frail-Craft (2007)

— “Juniper Preserve is a gathering place, a hub, and a sanctuary in the mystic juniper forest of Central Oregon." https://pronghornresort.com/gallery/

https://juniperpreserve.com/ https://juniperpreserve.com/ghost-trees-pronghorn/

— Source Landscaping https://www.sourcelandscaping.co/portfolio/#iLightbox[gallery_image_1]/45

https://www.sourcelandscaping.co/portfolio/#iLightbox[gallery_image_1]/55

— “Time is the enemy of all growing things. We maintain the integrity of your landscape investment so it can grow and be healthy over the long haul.” —Kiley Sampels. https://sampelslandscaping.com/portfolio/ scroll down to Trees

— "Ghost trees. 100$ 50$ installed in cement. These can be decorated with fake animal, lights for different occasions. Use you imagination." Ghost Trees On Facebook 

— Robert Pinsky, in the Note in his collection of poems Gulf Music (2007).

The Dream of Ghost Tree, conjuring the earthly comings and heavenly goings...