The day of the Old Church Gallery Quilt Guild, Floyd, VA, workshop will always be in our memory. We live about 30 miles from the Virginia Tech campus and many in the area have strong ties to the campus. As the day unfolded, our prayers continued to grow. The date, 4.16.07, is stitched on a branch of the tree. I wanted to use a triangle, a circle and a square in this piece. When I heard what had happened during our workshop I went over to my campus and took digital images, one of which I put on fabric and used in place of the birds initially used in the work shop. The tree is a combination of applique and free hand machine embroidery. As some of the trees on campus were tied with orange or maroon fabric, I tied my tree in fabric. The caring and support of the community both local and the world and the students for one another, is the reason I selected this image to by on my quilt.