Friday, July 29, 2011

Mast production


I made this a few months ago, the boat is carved from teak wood and the base is black walnut.

This is for the birds

My grandsons were visiting a few weeks ago and they made bird houses to take back home to Virginia. They designed them to look like barns and painted them white and red. This picture is of one of them ready for painting. Nice, huh?

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Dog days of summer at the Folly


Emma and Henry are not as happy about joining me in the folly these days, it gets a little hot out there. They do hang with me for awhile before asking for the AC.

Wall flower

This wall vase was carved from the stump of a dead dogwood tree. I wish I had taken a picture of the wood before I started work on it, because it looked so bad until I got through the rotten bark
an discovered this wonderful grain under it.

Orange bowl

This bowl was carved from a limb of a chestnut tree just around the corner from me. The limb was in bad shape and had to be cut because it was hanging over the road, the tree is now doing fine.