Most recently, the city of Livermore decided to dip its toe into the movement by hosting a Tree Sweater Forest -- a more mainstream example of this trend, yarn bombers say. The "highly organized and sanctioned" event as Rosendin described it, will decorate the trunks of more than 30 trees located on First Street between Railroad Avenue and Maple and L Streets. San Jose and Santa Rosa have hosted similar events. Installed on Saturday, the tree sweaters will be up until Nov. 22 and then donated to the Valley Humane Society for comfort pieces or bedding for shelter dogs and cats.
I made a trip to downtown Livermore just to see the tree sweaters. It was a Saturday and there were many people walking by and wondering about the sweaters. Here are my favorite nine sweaters (the first two pictures are of the same one). Click on any picture to see it come up in a larger size.
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