Lidded Bowl, Rosewood, 6" dia x 5" high
Footed Vessel, Walnut, 4"
Bowl, Spalted Maple
9 1/2" dia x 3"
"Luigi" at  the Lathe
Orangewood, Golden Goblet, 5"
"Lightning Rod", Cherry, 10"
"Water", Open Vessel, Maple, 11"
A drop of water falls from a leaf into a still stream
Your eye catches the moment, like a high sped camera,
of the droplet rebounding as the wave propagates across the water.
Best of Show 02 08
VAL Art Extravaganza
"Space Needle2"  Laurel & Koa,   5" Dia.  X  10" Tall

A Tree

i went into the woods
and found a tree
good and pleasing
as i could see
i asked of him, come home with me

we rested then, a little bit
when he was ready
a shape was found
was some of him
and some
of me
a shape that pleased the eye
suiting the way he'd grown

then came a finish
to preserve the hue and tone

and then i thought, are we ever finished
glazed as may be to protect from wear
and formed, too, by others hands

as wood is never finished
but changed in ways
by a perceivers eye
is thus to you
and so of me



Colubarium, 10 1/2 in, Cherry
Mortar & Pestil, 4", Ash
"The root of it"  Elm root with engraved Poplar base, 11"
"Space Needle1" Box Elder & Laurel, 5" X 6"
(c)    R L Ridgard 1955
Camphor Bowl, 13" dia
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