Yosemite Valley School Mural

Here's the Yosemite Valley School Mural.  It's much further along than this now.  I expect it to be finished and hanging up by the end of  May, 2010.  My friends Laurie, a teacher's aide at the school, and Catherine Soria, the principal, have been painstakingly cutting and gluing small pieces of stained glass to insert into the background around the ceramic pieces. Laurie's father, daughter and several other's have helped as well.  This mural is six feet in diameter.  My husband welded a huge metal frame for it and it's going to weigh a lot when it's done.  It will be mounted on a wall at the front of the school and a native plant garden will be planted around it.  We've been working on this one for about 3 years now.  It was inspired by a "tree of  life" mural we saw in Dunbar, Scotland 4 years ago.  It's kind of a sister school which the Yosemite School visits every 3 years.  John Muir was born in Dunbar but as a child immigrated to Wisconsin with his family before moving onto the west coast as a young man.  The Dunbar school visits Yosemite as well.