Artist Gary L Hightshoe | Black Oak, Quercus velutina Hardcover Journal

$24.95
We're all a bit quer-c(k)-ee sometimes — and that's perfectly okay. In fact, our differences are what make us uniquely, beautifully ourselves. What are the ways you see yourself as distinctive? How might others interpret your eccentricities? While being different can sometimes feel like a burden, there are so many reasons why you being you is extraordinary. It will feel good to take note of every single one in Gary's Black Oak Hardcover Journal. 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, Banff, 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 About this Journal: • Size: 5.5" × 8.5" — the perfect companion, at home or on the go • 80 lined pages of cream-colored paper • UltraHyde hardcover with a rich, luxurious feel • Cream ribbon page marker and matching elastic closure • Expandable inner pocket for recipes, notes, cards, and keepsakes • Print quality is exceptional — vivid, true-to-life, and exactly as pictured
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We're all a bit quer-c(k)-ee sometimes — and that's perfectly okay. In fact, our differences are what make us uniquely, beautifully ourselves. What are the ways you see yourself as distinctive? How might others interpret your eccentricities? While being different can sometimes feel like a burden, there are so many reasons why you being you is extraordinary. It will feel good to take note of every single one in Gary's Black Oak Hardcover Journal. 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, Banff, 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 About this Journal: • Size: 5.5" × 8.5" — the perfect companion, at home or on the go • 80 lined pages of cream-colored paper • UltraHyde hardcover with a rich, luxurious feel • Cream ribbon page marker and matching elastic closure • Expandable inner pocket for recipes, notes, cards, and keepsakes • Print quality is exceptional — vivid, true-to-life, and exactly as pictured