On site Commission #1

Here is a commission I created for an awesome women named Kay that lives in paradise on the Mississippi River in Inver Grove Heights. This was truly a pleasure to carve. I knew this was going to be a good one when I pulled up to discuss what she would like in her tree stump and Kay greeted me with a warm smile as a group of about twenty swans flew down the river. Breath taking and truly awe inspiring.

Plant Sale

Well it's been busy here this week I finished a commission on the Mississippi River in Inver Grove Heights and I have been working like mad on statuary for the Friends School Plant Sale. Here is a Preview of a few pieces available at the sale.












The Plant Sale is MAy 9,10,11. I will be there for sure May 9 & 10 but I am not sure about Sunday as it is half price day and I am not required to attend. I really hope you can make it I would love to see you.

Spring has arrived?

I think that spring is here now. A bit late if you ask me but I feel tempered and ready to truly appreciate the summer. This is a bud on our choke cherry bush exploding in the 65 degree weather. I wandered the yard this evening. After such a brutal winter I felt delirious looking at all the new buds on the trees and the plants popping out of the soil. (No it wasn't all the finishing I did today!) It is a mysterious time for me. I find it so engaging the unique shapes and colors that the plants produce. They change so rapidly and I just catch a glimpse here and there of the tiny little shoots. Pretty soon they will be fully developed leaves and sink in to the back ground. But right now I am captivated. A few months ago my Wife Desiree and I were commenting on how we can't look at the leafless trees by the end of March. We are so ready for the leaves to come in that the tree's become like static on TV. Try as we do we just can't focus on them any more. Any who here's our tamarack tree busting out it's new needles. Oh yeah.