My husband is an amazing artist. Every thing he attempts turns into something beautiful. To be honest, it kind of pisses me off a little. He recently finished this series of paintings entitled, "Nuts and Bolts". This isn't the greatest photo, as it was taken with my iPhone, but you can see more pictures of his work on his blog, Trippin' the Northwest.

I came across this news article from 2008 about an Ohio town where knitters began to make sweaters for the pear trees. It slowly became a community project and the more I researched the phenomena I found this has caught on all over the country. Where there is a knitter, there is a way.

Read the whole article here.

Here is Yellow Springs, Ohio's Knitknot Tree.

Artist Carol Hummel knitted this cozy sweater in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. What can I say? Wow!

"Yarn Bombing," as I have seen it called, is quite the craze. I can do a lot of things with yarn, but I never would've dreamed of dressing up my trees.

Here is a site devoted to the art of Yarn Bombing. Anyone thinking of starting to bundle up some trees, light posts, mailboxes, statues etc. in the Northwest? Let me know, because I may just have to get out my needles and start knitting.