Tossed an oak burl on the lathe today and some neat stuff was sure hiding in there

Decided to mess around and try and test my longstanding belief that neat wood could make neat jewelry.

Had a tiny piece of redwood burl leftover from the state tree map and am very excited I finally found something cool to make with it. Stay tuned.

This book dropping at what feels like the perfect time. Required reading for what’s ahead of us.

(Also earlier this year I planted some of Miles’s ashes under a serviceberry tree so I’m even more of a big ol’ target than you’d already expect.)

Made this from a log pulled off a trash pile, never gets old finding this kinda stuff hiding under a layer of weathered gray bark. Nature! It’s neat!

I love their cones a lot, they’re big and friendly and just overall very satisfying. (Also the easiest way to differentiate from the bristlecone pine whose cones are much smaller and have those bristley spines)

Like many other pines that live in harsh conditions, it has a symbiotic relationship with the Clark’s Nutcracker, who will bury caches of its seeds over winter and some forgotten ones will eventually become big ol’ Limber Pines someday

Couple famous limbers include “Twister” who lives in Alta, UT and is 1,700 years old and one at Whirlpool Point in Alberta, Canada estimated to be 3,000 years old (estimated)

Get to know a tree! Today it’s perhaps my favorite species of pine: the Limber Pine, Pinus flexilis.
•They’re big and lumpy and gnarled
•They can get live four 1,000+ years
•Big, friendly cones!
•They are, INDEED, limber (helps them survive at extreme altitudes and sway to the wind

idk what to do here, if nothing else, here’s a really cool juniper log