Live Oaks
The week leading up to New Years day, greg and I were able to retreat with some dear friends at Mepkin Abbey - a Trappist monestary in SC. The 5 days were full of prayer, quietude, rest, and some art-making. The landscape is breathtaking -- most notably, the beautiful Live Oaks which have been growing on the property for hundreds of years. Their branches twist and bend and are are teeming with ferns and foliage. They are covered in Spanish moss, which gently sways in the w