The Gnome’s Garden in the Foothills

The
little gnome, tired from a days work in his homestead garden, rests
beneath the apple tree to the lullaby of a babbling brook…

He’s just a little forest gnome,

the Olympic Mountain foothills are his home,

and he dreams and dreams under the apple tree

of all tomorrows adventures that will be.

I recently made this custom order for a friend to send as a gift
to a family who moved away from their little  Olympic Peninsula
homestead to be near family in a far away land. They were missing the
Pacific Northwest and dreaming of returning one day. Having grown up in
the foothills of the Olympic Mountains, and having that landscape
infused into my being, I was happy to make this needlefelted wool wall
hanging to remind them of that rugged, beautiful place. May their dreams
of returning come true!