Planting Trees

I needed something mindless to work on, so I'm stitching tree trunks. Rows and rows and rows of stem stitch--so mindless!

The striped Seuss tree on the right is done. I need to stitch a big bird to sit on top of one of the clump of leaves. The tree on the left has the rest of this branch plus one more--then I can add the leaves. Actually, I'm not sure what they're called--fronds?--because this is a weeping willow tree. I suppose I could google it but I do not feel that strongly about finding out. If anyone out there is an arborist and knows, please inform the rest of us.

I ran across an article the other day written by a scientist who studies creativity. She suggests that any creative person should have multiple projects going at one time--she suggests something like five to a dozen. This way, if you hit a snag on one thing, it's easy to move to something else. It also maintains the "creative flow."

Well, as a total failure at even partial project monogamy, which I have been trying this year, her ideas fit the way I usually work. I have a whole basket of WIPs sitting by my chair so it's easy to move from one thing to another as the mood strikes. I would like to keep Sampler Sunday going, but it's nice to have actual scientific research to back up the fact that I generally bounce from one thing to another like a BB in a boxcar.