Posted on May 25, 2018
I recently had the opportunity to road trip around England and Scotland with my English friend James and his wonderful, and convenient, driving and tour-guiding. We managed to drive around the United Kingdom; visiting London, Canterbury, Winchester, Oxford, Stonehenge, The Cotswolds, Birmingham, The Lake District, Hadrian’s wall, Edinburgh, Glencoe, the Isle of Skye, John o’ Groats, Inverness, Loch Ness, Lindisfarne, York, Sutton Hoo, Canewdon, and Southend on Sea, as well as many, many stops along the way. This was a wonderful journey with great history, architecture, landscapes, and natural beauty to photograph along the way.
Category: Photography Tagged: Abbey, Animals, Architecture, Barrow, Barrow Downs, Beach, Bears, Cairn, Castle, Castles, Cathedral, Church, Cliffs, Cotswolds, Cows, England, Fairy, Fairy Glen, Fairy Pools, Farms, Field, Flowers, Forest, Hadrian's Wall, Harry Potter, Henge, Highland Cows, Highlands, HIking, History, Isle of Skye, JRR Tolkien, Lake, Loch, Loch Ness, London, Long Barrow, Long Exposure, Monolith, Mountain, Mountains, Nature, Neolithic, Photography, Polar Bears, Prehistoric, Quiraing, Rainbow, Reflections, River, Robin Hood, Rock, Roman, Roman Fort, Rook, Ruins, Scotland, Sheep, Sherwood, Snow, Statue, Stone Circle, Stonehenge, Stones, Sunset, tolkien, Tower, Towers, Travel, tree, Trees, United Kingdom, Waterfalls, Woods
Posted on November 14, 2017
This end table is made from a chainsaw cut naturally fallen oak tree from southern MN. The edges are chiseled free of bark and rot and dried for over a year. The crack which opened up during the drying process has been held together by three black walnut butterfly inlays for strength and decoration. The oak slab is mounted on raw steel legs which also brace the cracks in the wood. Around the edge is an Old Norse verse written in Elder Futhark runes from the Vǫluspá in the Poetic Edda.
The verse reads:
Vǫluspá 3
Ár var alda
þar er Ymir byggði,
vara sandr né sær
né svalar unnir,
jörð fannst æva
né upphiminn,
gap var Ginnunga,
en gras hvergi.
The Seeress´s Prophecy 3
Young were the years,
when Ymir made his settlement,
there was no sand nor sea,
nor cool waves,
earth was nowhere
nor the sky above,
chaos yawned,
grass was nowhere.
The English translations are from The Poetic Edda: A New Translation by Carolyne Larrington. Oxford University Press. 1996
Category: Woodworking Tagged: Black Walnut, Butterfly Inlay, Crack, Forest, Live-edge, Live-edge Table, Live-edge wood, Natural, Nature, Oak, Old Norse, Poem, Poetry, Raw Steel Legs, Red Oak, Rune, Runes, Runic, Runic Inscriptions, tree, Tree Rings, Viking, Wood, wood-burn, Wood-burning, Woodworking
Posted on August 11, 2017
My recent nerdy wood-burning projects including a Tree of Gondor end table, Yggdrassil/Branch and Root Tree, Tolkienesque Minnesota Map, Nazgul, and Gokstad Viking Ship wall decor pieces.
Category: Woodworking Tagged: End Table, hairpin legs, lord of the rings, lotr, map, minnesota, Oak, Table, tolkien, tree, Trees, vikings, vikingship, wood-burn, Wood-burning, Woodworking
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