Tag Archives: cedar

From Log to Shakes – 4 photographs

Posted on March 7, 2021 by hernibs

This cedar log has been lying in our woods for over 50s years. His nibs cut a 20′ long piece and tractored it out of the woods. Hisnibs split the log into 4 sections and then, using a froe and … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged bc, cedar, froe, inspiration, Life, log, mallet, nature, photograph, shakes, splitting shakes, survival, woods | 1 Comment

A Lovely Stick

Posted on February 20, 2021 by hernibs

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged art, bc, Beauty, cedar, craft, driftwood, freedom, inspiration, nature, photograph, stick, treasure | 2 Comments

Battens Being Added to the Cabin.

Posted on January 2, 2021 by hernibs

Hisnibs cut all the battens and did the first wall. I love the look. All cedar, smells wonderful too.

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged bc, Beauty, board and batten, cabin, cedar, happy place, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, project, seeing, woodwork | 2 Comments

Homemade Wood Siding

Posted on November 16, 2020 by hernibs

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged bc, Beauty, board and batten, cabin, cedar, Fall, forest, happy place, home, inspiration, nature, photograph, seeing, siding, woods | 3 Comments

Cedar Lumber From An Old Fallen Tree

Posted on November 12, 2020 by hernibs

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged bc, Beauty, board and batten, boards, cedar, forest, happy place, home, inspiration, Life, log, nature, photograph, recycle, survival, woods | 2 Comments

Evolution of Two Shelves (Four photos)

Posted on August 7, 2020 by hernibs

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged Beauty, cabin, cedar, inspiration, kitchenette, photograph, recycle, shelves, upcycle, woodwork | 3 Comments

Bathroom Cabinet Finished

Posted on July 9, 2020 by hernibs

Cedar live edge counter top with cedar door fronts and side all milled from our land. The brass sink is from our old boat and the taps were from the old pedestal sink that was in the old bathroom. That … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged bathroom, Beauty, cabin, cabinet, cedar, happy place, Life, mushrooms, photograph, projects, renovations, unique | 4 Comments

Cabin Renovation – new bathroom cabinet

Posted on May 14, 2020 by hernibs

Hisnibs built this little cabinet out of scraps in the workshop. The top is a piece of an old cedar that fell across our road about four years ago. Hisnibs milled it, planed it and made it to fit the … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged bathroom, bc, Beauty, cedar, freedom, home, inspiration, nature, photograph, renovation, scraps, simplicity, sink, taps, woods | 4 Comments

Ultimate Recycling

Posted on November 8, 2019 by hernibs

Fallen cedar tree reborn into beautiful cedar posts that will hold our new French Doors.

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged Beauty, cedar, Fall, forest, home, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, post, Recycling, seeing, survival, tree, woods | 2 Comments

Feeding Time

Posted on June 17, 2019 by hernibs

Red-breasted sapsucker Sphyrapicus ruber Frequent visitor in our woods. Subspecies of yellow bellied sapsucker on the Pacific Coast. Food: Sap, fruit, arthropods. it drills neat rows of holes in bark of trees, later visiting the pits to lick up sap … Continue reading →

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New Table

Posted on March 16, 2019 by hernibs

Hisnibs built us a new table from a cedar tree that fell down in a storm one year. It was all one board. Two planks glued together. The tapered legs were from another salvaged cedar tree. It’s a nice size … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged Beauty, cedar, furniture, happy place, home, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, puzzle, table | 4 Comments

Reborn

Posted on July 16, 2018 by hernibs

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged bc, Beauty, cedar, cedar boards, cedar tree, forest, hope, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, poem, reborn, seeing, survival, thoughts, transfigured, woods | Leave a comment

My Mountain

Posted on January 26, 2018 by hernibs

I can see my mountain today. Dark grey ragged piece pasted to white flat paper sky light from the east spot lights the picture framed in alder and cedar. ©Sharron R. McMillan

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged alder, bc, Beauty, cedar, forest, mountain, nature, photograph, poem, seeing, sky, snow, view, woods | Leave a comment

Holly Berries

Posted on October 19, 2016 by hernibs

Holly grows all over our acreage but none bear the beautiful red berries so cherished around Christmas time. One Sunday tramp along our gravel road we came across this batch of holly growing in the sun up against a cedar … Continue reading →

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Creativity

Posted on August 29, 2016 by hernibs

“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but making something out of it after it is found” ~James R. Lowell (1819-1891)

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