Lo! Young we are and yet have stood like planted hearts in the great Sun of Love so long (as two fair trees in woodland or in open dale stand utterly entwined and breathe the airs and suck the very light together) that we have become as one, deep rooted in the soil of Life and tangled in the sweet growth.
- J.R.R. Tolkien on his wife, Edith
A contest price for whose picture placed 2nd in the "Between the lines" contest of , and . Her request was a drawing of a beautiful tree couple, she uses to meet in a forest - Lord Oak and Lady Birch, growing together: The photo doesn't show them higher than the base of the trunks, but I think I can very well imagine how it continues - and that's what I have drawn
It's a negative of a pencil drawing (like here - )