Artist Gary L Hightshoe | Waving Hello — Happy Anniversary Greeting Card & Envelope
There is something deeply fitting about ocean waves as a metaphor for a lasting love — the way they keep coming, unhurried and faithful, year after year. Gary L. Hightshoe photographed this scene from Grand Island, Texas, where the water moves with the quiet certainty of something that has been doing this for a very long time. As the year rolls by — and the years roll on — send this to the person you have chosen to keep choosing, again and again, like the tide.
Gary L. Hightshoe is an Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University, where he taught plant materials, planting design, and landscape resource management for more than 47 years. Over the course of nearly half a century, his colleagues, clients, students, and family have known him by many names — the Tree Whisperer, the Grandfather of the Prairie, the Godfather of Savanna Studio — and every one of them fits.
A lifelong conservationist, ecologist, historian, illustrator, hunter, angler, photographer, and artist, Gary is the author and illustrator of two landmark works: Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Rural and Urban America and North American Plantfile — books that continue to shape the field of landscape architecture. His most enduring legacy, however, may be Savanna Studio at Iowa State: the only traveling landscape architecture studio of its kind in the world. Over two decades, Gary led more than 1,000 students out from behind their desks and into the field — to the Boundary Waters, Yellowstone, Theodore Roosevelt, the Badlands, and beyond — because, as he has always believed, "you can't develop a relationship with the landscape from behind a desk."
Gary loves the great White Oak, the Pagoda and Flowering Dogwood, and any native prairie forb. His granddaughters will tell you he is decidedly not a fan of petunias, lilacs, or red-leafed varieties. And he has spent a lifetime restoring 40 acres of never-tilled original Iowa land — wetland, prairie, and forest — to the way it was always meant to be.
"Long after we've come and gone, a tree still stands." — Gary L. Hightshoe
Gary L. Hightshoe is one of five Kate Shu Collective STAR Resident Artists and a treasured member of the Monarch Shoppe family.
About this Card:
• Available in three sizes: 4"x6", 5"x7", and 5.83"x8.27" (larger than a standard Hallmark card)
• Premium 14.77 oz/yd2 (350 g/m2) paperboard — substantial, quality feel
• Toner-based printing — vivid, true-to-life color that stays rich over time
• Interior message: "As the Year Rolls By — Happy Anniversary"
• Artist biography printed on the back of the card
• Complimentary envelope included — peel sticker closure, no licking required
• Individual clear protective sleeve included
There is something deeply fitting about ocean waves as a metaphor for a lasting love — the way they keep coming, unhurried and faithful, year after year. Gary L. Hightshoe photographed this scene from Grand Island, Texas, where the water moves with the quiet certainty of something that has been doing this for a very long time. As the year rolls by — and the years roll on — send this to the person you have chosen to keep choosing, again and again, like the tide.
Gary L. Hightshoe is an Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University, where he taught plant materials, planting design, and landscape resource management for more than 47 years. Over the course of nearly half a century, his colleagues, clients, students, and family have known him by many names — the Tree Whisperer, the Grandfather of the Prairie, the Godfather of Savanna Studio — and every one of them fits.
A lifelong conservationist, ecologist, historian, illustrator, hunter, angler, photographer, and artist, Gary is the author and illustrator of two landmark works: Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Rural and Urban America and North American Plantfile — books that continue to shape the field of landscape architecture. His most enduring legacy, however, may be Savanna Studio at Iowa State: the only traveling landscape architecture studio of its kind in the world. Over two decades, Gary led more than 1,000 students out from behind their desks and into the field — to the Boundary Waters, Yellowstone, Theodore Roosevelt, the Badlands, and beyond — because, as he has always believed, "you can't develop a relationship with the landscape from behind a desk."
Gary loves the great White Oak, the Pagoda and Flowering Dogwood, and any native prairie forb. His granddaughters will tell you he is decidedly not a fan of petunias, lilacs, or red-leafed varieties. And he has spent a lifetime restoring 40 acres of never-tilled original Iowa land — wetland, prairie, and forest — to the way it was always meant to be.
"Long after we've come and gone, a tree still stands." — Gary L. Hightshoe
Gary L. Hightshoe is one of five Kate Shu Collective STAR Resident Artists and a treasured member of the Monarch Shoppe family.
About this Card:
• Available in three sizes: 4"x6", 5"x7", and 5.83"x8.27" (larger than a standard Hallmark card)
• Premium 14.77 oz/yd2 (350 g/m2) paperboard — substantial, quality feel
• Toner-based printing — vivid, true-to-life color that stays rich over time
• Interior message: "As the Year Rolls By — Happy Anniversary"
• Artist biography printed on the back of the card
• Complimentary envelope included — peel sticker closure, no licking required
• Individual clear protective sleeve included
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