Carving bowls helps me to live on the land
land
Big Bear of a Locust Log
We cut this big dead Honey-Locust (Gleditsia triancanthos) at Boaz last fall. I cut him in half out there free-hand, which took nearly 3 hours, then hauled him home. After some flattening I cut the halves into 3.5″ slabs. I still had to use the tractor to move them.
Roosters in the Snow
Grazing Winter Wheat and Purple Top
The wheat and turnips are very popular.
Bonus photo: 6 V tractor light
Portrait of Mike Schultz
Portrait of Mike Schultz. 1999, oil on oak panel, 5 1/2 x 6 3/8″.
Somehow I neglected to add one of my favorite paintings to the archive here. This is a portrait I painted of my close friend Mike Schultz when we were in school together.
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.
Wood-rick and Dressing Oak
Here is my small woodrick inspired by the folks at Plimoth Plantation. With a small door to admit the chickens. 
From the top.
From the west
Dressing a plank of red oak. The radius of the iron leaves tracks.
The iron with a pail-bottom radius takes heavy shavings.
Chainsaw-milled and well seasoned,
Cut just north of the heart with enough character to remain functional.
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.
Prairie Clover and a Sawmill
Round-headed prairie-clover (left) and White prairie-clover from northwest pasture – good forage
Custom-built sawmill bought at an action last month
Another view of the saw
Good label
New lean-to built on the west side of the shop
Scribed rough sawn walnut panel for a chest
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
The School of the Transfer of Energy 