The wheat and turnips are very popular.
Bonus photo: 6 V tractor light
Bone Meal Bread
Zechariah (the Prophet) and Walking Man (detail)
Cutting linoleum for a relief print of the prophet Zechariah holding a banner saying “Grace to it”
Some new work on the objects in the foreground of Walking Man and the Ancient Ocean.
Carving Austrian Pine & Striking Knife of Steel and Boxwood
Cover Crops and Forage
Field planted to peas and radishes as a cover crop and winter forage for livestock, and a few other photos from around the place.
Table Build in Red Oak Part 1
The following is part 1 of a photo essay on a rustic and a little bit twisty red oak hall table build.
Composing
Roughing out the leg spindles
Cutting the tenons to width
Establishing taper with a gouge
Breather, almost there
Leveling out with a jack plane
Down to size with the spoker
After shaping with an angle grinder and hand sanding through many grits
Leg # 2 at dawn
Side by side
Composing again
About 11 days left and a lot of work to go
Locust Bowl
Locust bowl with textured rim
Detail of the rim
Carved Pear-wood spoon
These pieces and a few other spoons and bowls are available for purchase and will be on the works for sale page soon with dimensions and prices.
South-West Kansas: Gyp Hills and Big Basin
Big Basin, South-East of Dodge City.
Gyp Hills, West of Medicine Lodge on US 160.
Ten-petal mentzelia, Big Basin.
Sink-hole containing Saint Jacob’s Well, Big Basin.
Harvest
wheat shocks
Wheat, from the field to bread, cabbage into sauerkraut, carrots, wild sand-plums and blackberries, a rigging axe harvested from a field, chicks cleaning an alfalfa patch
Job in the Cave of the Erth: Profectus
Slow refinement upon the underpainting of Job in the Cave of the Erth.
Bread Labor
Cabinet drawers
White oak frame
Cooler emboss and inlay
Carved Birch bowls
The School of the Transfer of Energy 