shady characters

     well this is one carving that took me over a year to carve and taught me something about oak . it is hard , and it will sure defeat you from carving if you use it much. i carved this head out using traditional methods of a chisel and using a small wood rasp . it took me forever and i just about gave up carving. it didn't get much better any faster, as i was still not impressed with the look he had. i was just about ready to chuck him in the fire and warm my toes and finally get some worth besides frustration. he was good at that.

     i was working somewhere and had found these sunglasses , i thought were cool as they flip up and will be yellow. looks like something john lennon would wear. i was checking out my carvings and then just tried on this head and it seemed to fit perfect. so i stapled them into his head with staples such as those i used in his nose. a fishhook in the ear adds to the carving by increasing the shock value as my punk hippie nephew say is important today, along with a glint of red in the head making him almost iridescent and somewhat believable. that carving sat around and finally made its way out to be seen and was snapped up almost immediately and brought me a fair price. 

     in fact he was only a foot tall and carved out of a 4x4 post.. strange how some things affect people more than others. was reading today that pictures of jennifer anniston seem to trigger brain activity more than any other subject. well i dont have any pictures of jennifer a. but i like looking at her too. but don't think that is what would stimulate the most brain activity in me . well i guess the doctors are at a loss to explain why jennifer a. of all people  would stimulate more people, and there is a plan to study why it is so. 

    included tonight is  five different vistas , mostly sunsets i have taken , now if you really think i am getting up early in am to just give you a morning shot., then you must be delusional. unless it is to cash in my winning mega millions ticket , then maybe. sometimes the colors evoke feelings from me when i observe. as in most i am looking west into the face of on coming weather. as opposed to looking east as you would be looking at weather you are safe from.

     large voluminous black and blue clouds signify possibility of rain. hints of sunshine peaking though the clouds tell me what ever happens wont be long lived. 

  

      red at night is sailors delight and a weather indicator i feel is true for most part. a clearing in the back of the skyline indicates fair weather as i am pointing camera west out our lane.

      hard to believe we have clouds like this in ohio. and you probably feel i must photo shop my pictures , but this is raw unedited actually reclaimed strip mine land outside of lisbon , ohio. looks like it could be on a colorado calender. 

       the last 2 pics are the same cloud formation but maybe ten minutes difference . the first picture is the last taken. loved the colors all except where the shadows of the power lines run though  both. oh well what are you going to do. hard to find a place where power lines are not there now a days. and flying in the air at 30000 ft  above this beautiful earth is a testament to that.  the only feature i can tell for sure when looking down , and that is where the power lines go. millions of trees are butchered to just light up utopia. hmmmmmm. in conclusion , if the trend in ohio continues with all this good weather then we will all become shady characters.