North to Alaska

Portage Glacier, near the head of Turnagain Arm

To celebrate our fortieth anniversary (coming this November), we joined a dozen friends, from Lake County, Florida, and from Atlanta, for a two-week adventure safari through Alaska.

Hos-pickle

A tasty treat from the Anchorage store . . .

Charlie and the rainbow-colored hospickle!

Doing dishes is so much fun!

Charlie and Claire giving Gigi a hand with the dirty dishes.

Mr. T's railroad corner

Seaboard, Southern, Union Pacific and Great Northern. All aboard!

Learning turning

Got a Jet JWL-1236 lathe off Craigslist in January, and have been learning turning the old-fashioned, trial-and-error way. Plus, making an unbelievable mess of my half of the garage!

Box elder

Basket-weave vessel; plywood and pine.

Dogwood stump (referring to the bowl).

Same bowl as above, after some finishing work.

Segmented, lidded box, of leopard wood,
ambrosia maple, and padauk.

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They're baaaaaack!

No extra charge for political messaging, along with your septic pump-out! Welcome to Rabun County!

And related, from nearby on Bridge Creek Road . . .

Workshop of Beaver Carpenter, woodmaster, furniture craftsman.

Land of milk and honey

Along Bridge Creek Road, Tiger

(Those are bee-hives along the back fence line. And, no, these aren't dairy cattle, but cut me some slack!)