It is time for the annual blog!  For the record, I never intended to create a daily, weekly, or even monthly blog when I started my...

I wanted to start out by saying what a crazy year this has been because I feel half crazy this year, but then I looked back on the past...

Each year as I am carving, small tidbits pop into my mind daily and these are the threads I follow to eventually create a small story...

Each year as my annual menagerie progresses, I identify one or two themes running through their developing stories. These themes...

I have carved surprisingly few domesticated creatures over the years and quite a few woodland critters. Having grown up in Montana it...

More birds have flown my coop over the decades than I can count (or have photographed). They are challenging animals to anthropomorphize...

A fair number of horses sold before I had to chance to photograph them. I have learned, the past few years to take candid photos of them...

There are a couple of decades of my work that went undocumented! Most of that is all the humans and angels I created and sold at joint...

Bill Hare is a good example of how I find and am inspired by wood. He was also the first rabbit I carved around a dozen years ago when I...

Once upon a time… Well, these stories really are not those types of stories but this year's menagerie tale has more of a premise than...

I am heading into the home stretch of sewing the clothes for this year's menagerie. The badger will be the final addition to the...

It would be easier if... It would be faster if... It would be cheaper if... You could make more money if... You could sell so much more...

I can't say that "Time flies when you are having fun" because this year was not one I want to repeat. I am filled with hope that this...

Yep. A grape. A great big, pretty, red grape from Costco. Hat season began about a month ago and I am busily felting new hats for Fall...

I no longer have the time, or necessarily the means, to dash off to Africa for a few years, zip to Europe for few weeks of galavanting,...

Show season has closed and it was a joyous and successful one. I am grateful for that because it means I can afford to head into another...

Fall show season is just about here and it is time to let you know where I will be and when. I am busily sewing this year's animal...

This time of year, for me, is the middle of process of creating my dolls. I have to start transforming them from the log that they were...

I have to confess that I am an embellisher. I can't resist the lure of trying to tweak whatever happens to be in front of me. A loaf of...

I usually, like most artists, post photos of the things I feel I have successfully finished. I don't plan to change that! I do share...