Sweetie, I maple-lieve in love at first sight. The sugar maple makes a pretty compelling case for it: medium-green leaves three to six inches wide with three to five soft lobes, turning yellow-orange in autumn with extraordinary color variations from one tree to the next. Its winged samara fruits twirl down through the air like tiny helicopters every fall — the kind of small wonder that stops you mid-walk. The leaf is so iconic it's the national symbol of Canada. Gary L Hightshoe drew this Sweetie with the eye of someone who has loved this tree for decades. Wear this T-Shirt for the kind of sweet that catches you off-guard, the moment you didn't see coming, and the love that turned out to be the real thing.
Gary L Hightshoe is the "Tree Whisperer." The grandfather of the prairie. The godfather of Savanna Studio. As Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University, Gary taught plant materials, planting design, and landscape resource management for more than 47 years. His students, his colleagues, and his friends gave him those names because they captured what was true: nobody knew the trees, the prairie, the savanna, the Midwest's living landscape the way Gary did, and nobody loved them more.
Gary is the author and illustrator of North American Plantfile and Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Rural and Urban America — books that have shaped the field of landscape architecture for a generation. His most enduring contribution may be Savanna Studio, the only traveling landscape architecture studio of its kind in the world. Over two decades, Gary led more than 1,000 students to the Boundary Waters, Yellowstone, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Banff, and the Badlands — teaching them that you can't develop a relationship with the landscape from behind a desk.
Through his art, Gary brings the natural world he has spent a lifetime studying into spaces where people can carry a piece of it with them every day. Every tree he draws, every barn he sketches, every silo he renders is a small act of preservation — a record of the Midwest as it was, as it is, and as it deserves to be remembered.
"Long after we've come and gone, a tree still stands." — Gary L Hightshoe
About this T-Shirt:
A Kate Shu Collective exclusive, available only at the Monarch Shoppe.
Sweetie, I maple-lieve in love at first sight. The sugar maple makes a pretty compelling case for it: medium-green leaves three to six inches wide with three to five soft lobes, turning yellow-orange in autumn with extraordinary color variations from one tree to the next. Its winged samara fruits twirl down through the air like tiny helicopters every fall — the kind of small wonder that stops you mid-walk. The leaf is so iconic it's the national symbol of Canada. Gary L Hightshoe drew this Sweetie with the eye of someone who has loved this tree for decades. Wear this T-Shirt for the kind of sweet that catches you off-guard, the moment you didn't see coming, and the love that turned out to be the real thing.
Gary L Hightshoe is the "Tree Whisperer." The grandfather of the prairie. The godfather of Savanna Studio. As Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University, Gary taught plant materials, planting design, and landscape resource management for more than 47 years. His students, his colleagues, and his friends gave him those names because they captured what was true: nobody knew the trees, the prairie, the savanna, the Midwest's living landscape the way Gary did, and nobody loved them more.
Gary is the author and illustrator of North American Plantfile and Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Rural and Urban America — books that have shaped the field of landscape architecture for a generation. His most enduring contribution may be Savanna Studio, the only traveling landscape architecture studio of its kind in the world. Over two decades, Gary led more than 1,000 students to the Boundary Waters, Yellowstone, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Banff, and the Badlands — teaching them that you can't develop a relationship with the landscape from behind a desk.
Through his art, Gary brings the natural world he has spent a lifetime studying into spaces where people can carry a piece of it with them every day. Every tree he draws, every barn he sketches, every silo he renders is a small act of preservation — a record of the Midwest as it was, as it is, and as it deserves to be remembered.
"Long after we've come and gone, a tree still stands." — Gary L Hightshoe
About this T-Shirt:
A Kate Shu Collective exclusive, available only at the Monarch Shoppe.
