Dorothy Bunny Bowen

PiÑon Death:
The River Flows On

Detail; below (not shown) is darker silk
embellished with Japanese gold paste.
Rozome on Kimono Silk
22 x 28"
$800

Millions of piñon pines have died over the past few years
in the Southwest. We will miss them. But they are not all gone...
tiny seedlings hold promise for the future, for our grandchildren.

A deadly combination of drought and infestation by the Piñon Bark Beetle, Ips confusus, has caused widespread mortality in the piñon-juniper forests.