Walks and thoughts
Walking through woodlands may seem the same as the UK but everything is indeed very different. The birds may be a like species; tree creepers, nuthatches, chickadee and tufted titmice, but they are coloured very differently that the UK and European versions. I had the wrong lenses on my camera but still the record was valuable for reminding me just how diverse life on two continents can really be. Bluebirds don’t exist as such in the UK and so I have missed seeing their vivid blue flashes across my pathway. A pair lives just below my apartment here in town. I think that they are quite lovely birds. I wrote a poem years ago about them. I will dig it out and post it some time.
Reacquaint yourself with the raw stock
Peaceful walks still the disquiet and set a pattern for peace
History recorded
I see no canopied growth and records of history in each growth cycle show quite rapid and consistent growth. I sit to watch the sun melt the snow for a while and then walk on to the woodshop past the sawmill. Millers seem to be holding their own against the Georgia Pacific giants as they run their Woodmizer Mobile sawmills and their Mobile Dimension Saws Powered by a VW beetle engine. I hope that we can all hold out instead of sell out. Saw millers and furniture makers don’t look right stacking shelves in Walmart somehow. It makes me more intent on the Real Woodworking Campaign. Joseph and I have been talking about the next step on that front so we will be letting you know what we hope to do to get more things cooking.
Timber framing has a certain peace and rest about the order of it
My creative workspace NY
Soon I will be able to set up proper and I am arranging for my tools to come in. I have two sets; one in the US and one in the UK. I haven’t seen my US set for three years. Many if not most of these are friends from my apprenticeship, which I bought from my very small wages as a 15-year old.