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A Lovely Stick
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Tagged art, bc, Beauty, cedar, craft, driftwood, freedom, inspiration, nature, photograph, stick, treasure
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Battens Being Added to the Cabin.
Hisnibs cut all the battens and did the first wall. I love the look. All cedar, smells wonderful too.
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Tagged bc, Beauty, board and batten, cabin, cedar, happy place, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, project, seeing, woodwork
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Homemade Wood Siding
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Tagged bc, Beauty, board and batten, cabin, cedar, Fall, forest, happy place, home, inspiration, nature, photograph, seeing, siding, woods
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Cedar Lumber From An Old Fallen Tree
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Tagged bc, Beauty, board and batten, boards, cedar, forest, happy place, home, inspiration, Life, log, nature, photograph, recycle, survival, woods
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Evolution of Two Shelves (Four photos)
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Tagged Beauty, cabin, cedar, inspiration, kitchenette, photograph, recycle, shelves, upcycle, woodwork
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Bathroom Cabinet Finished
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
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Tagged bathroom, Beauty, cabin, cabinet, cedar, happy place, Life, mushrooms, photograph, projects, renovations, unique
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Cabin Renovation – new bathroom cabinet
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
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Tagged bathroom, bc, Beauty, cedar, freedom, home, inspiration, nature, photograph, renovation, scraps, simplicity, sink, taps, woods
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Ultimate Recycling
Fallen cedar tree reborn into beautiful cedar posts that will hold our new French Doors.
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Tagged Beauty, cedar, Fall, forest, home, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, post, Recycling, seeing, survival, tree, woods
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Feeding Time
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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Tagged bc, Beauty, cedar, Flicker, forest, Life, nature, photograph, seeing, woods
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New Table
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
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Tagged Beauty, cedar, furniture, happy place, home, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, puzzle, table
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Reborn
Death is not final all is reborn, Transfigured, delivered – a brand new form. ©Sharron R. McMillan
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Tagged bc, Beauty, cedar, cedar boards, cedar tree, forest, hope, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, poem, reborn, seeing, survival, thoughts, transfigured, woods
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My Mountain
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
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Tagged alder, bc, Beauty, cedar, forest, mountain, nature, photograph, poem, seeing, sky, snow, view, woods
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Holly Berries
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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Tagged bc, Beauty, berries, cedar, Christmas, forest, holly, nature, photograph, red, seeing, woods
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Creativity
“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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Tagged Beauty, cedar, creative thinking, creativity, forest, freedom, inspiration, James R. Lowell, nature, photograph, Quote, seeing, tree
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From Scratch
A cedar tree fell in last winter’s storm, cut to length and milled into 2’x10’x6′ foot board, put through the planer to smooth, edges rounded with a router, 2×4 legs milled from the same tree, a coat of sealer voila, … Continue reading
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Tagged bench, cedar, forest, from scratch, homemade, inspiration, nature, photograph, photography, woods
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