A fine art photograph of the New Shoe Tree, Nevada. Yes, it is a 'new' beginning for this smaller cottonwood tree, but to fill the whole left by the once bigger 70 foot cottonwood tree filled with thousands pairs of shoes is a daunting void to replace. For years and years people would drive along highway 50 in Nevada, refereed to as the 'Loneliest road in America', to visit the world renown SHOE TREE. It was not only a rest stop, but a place to recapture your child hood, to stare at something so wonderfully odd, to laugh at the strange arrangements of different style shoes that people would fly up into the tops this tall cottonwood tree. The SHOE TREE was definitely a novelty, an innocent art installment that kept growing and changing from day to day. Then, for NO REASON ON EARTH, on December 30th 2010 unknown idiots chained sawed the tree down. Why? There are no reasonable explanations, none. That giant cottonwood tree with thousands of shoes hanging from it, only brought smiles and wonderment to those who saw it. It was so very American, it typified our quirky sense of humor. The ridiculous act of cutting it down only says, one very sad thing about the American culture today, that, we indeed, are losing our sense of humor and for that we all should mourn.