Scarecrow

Our hometown Fair is a delight. It is among a circuit of "Agricultural Fairs" and features oxen pulls, 4H kids, and all the traveling carnival attractions. Last year, I saw that the Scarecrow Contest was a little lacking for anything scary. That's the point, right? Something scary to crows? I thought about it and decided that nothing would be scarier to a crow than something that swats them out of the air and eats them. This is Eating Crow. It won Best of Show and the People's Choice Award.

Clown Pumpkin!

I've made a few pumpkins. The Anglerfish pumpkin with the red eyes and dangling candy corn, the one eyed, one horned, flying purple pumpkin eater, the Elvis pumpkin... but they were all just missing that certain aire of menace that only a smiling clown can bring to the party.

We work well together

Amy and I don't have to work at it. We start something, for example; a snowman on a park bench on Thanksgiving morning. Before long we're adding a defensive posture of crossed arms to the man and a somewhat resigned turkey beside him. We wouldn't have done this by ourselves, and if we did, it wouldn't be a shared memory. We called this, "Conversation with Dinner."

Wicker Heron

The Heron at the July 4th Art Show in Plainfield, NH

2011 Moose

Not that I intend to make one every year... This moose was started in August '10, spent the winter hiding chickadees and was finished in June '11. I like the antlers on this one better than my previous moose.