A single footstep will not make a path on earth

In crit we were talking about how I should incorperate things that people leave behind so in this one I chose to use a book/journal representing all of the places this person has either read about and wants to go or a journal representing where they have been and written down experiences. On the book I wrote a qoute which says "A single footstep will not make a path on earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." by Henry David Thoreau

Here is what I have been working on I added the shadow of the trees and made the grass extend more into the background!

Stairway

I started this today. some of the things metioned in my Jr. Review were that the viens in the eye scans don't always have to represent trees. So I tried playing around with that idea today and this is what I came up with. I'm not done with this yet and any commets or suggestions would be great.