Enjoyably challenging, requiring real focus on details of tree textures, variation of color, etc. Cavallini has few wrong connections, which I appreciate. Second time I’ve had Cavallini pieces still connected & then tore the paper off one of the tabs while disconnecting. )-8 And, I really wish the original captions had been in English rather than French, because I didn’t feel like translating the ones I couldn’t figure out. Oh well.
Unusually, I did not do the border first — there were lots and lots of plain white pieces with a border, and occasionally little bits of color from an interior tree. It was going to be too annoying figuring out all the places from the not-interesting puzzle piece shapes. So, I worked on the yellow ginkgo tree first, then other trees. The big Monterey spruce looking tree in center (bottom right) was the last tree to finish, and then there were lots of little pieces here and there, and by then relatively few border pieces.
