Social butterfly

This walking stick was carved from a branch of a sycamore tree. The butterfly is made from the same wood and attached to the nose with a metal pin and epoxy resin.

Dust bowl

I created more sawdust than bowl with this project. It's carved from a large piece of cypress that a neighbor gave me. It can be used as a bowl, boat or bathtub.

Now serving

This bowl was made from an oak burl, I kept the bark on the outside because I like the color and texture. The grain pattern inside the bowl is very nice.

Cold blooded carvings

I made these walking sticks awhile back, they are both carved from dogwood.

Hey whittle whittle

This ornament was carved from cherry wood, for friends of ours who operate a dairy farm.

Walking whale no fluke

This walking stick is from a sycamore tree that lost many limbs in a recent storm. The last photo shows the stick standing next to that tree.

Emma and Henry

Emma and Henry are enjoying our very early spring this year.

Aging well

This carving gets better looking every year, I wish I could say that about myself.

Live music at the Folly

Last weekend our friends Adele, Bob and David from Charleston SC came to town and treated us to a concert from the porch of the Folly. Our garden was transformed into a magical, dream-like place with great music, friends and fun (the rum didn't hurt either). Wow! Thank you so much, guys!

Croakin' crooner

This fellow has been living in our little pond for at least four years now. He likes to serenade us with his deep voice.

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?

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.

Go figure

I carved this bowl from the wood of a fig tree. I had no idea that fig wood would carve so nicely.
I love figs.

Changing table

I didn't make this table. I did redo the inlay top and refinished it for my friends Gene and Donna. It was in rough shape (water damage), but I think it turned out fine. I don't usually do this kind of woodwork, but it was nice for a change.

To be or knot to be

This six-foot-tall figure was carved from a very old heart pine beam that came out of an old building in Virginia. I've titled it "Joy". It reminds Catherine of Allen when he was a little boy.

I found this in an old trunk

This large bowl was made from a cross-section of a dead maple tree trunk.

Are you a Manatee or a mouse?

I carved this manatee cane from privet wood.