Haven't been taking many pictures lately. Blue came to the store and snuck into a photo. Below are a few benches made with reclaimed wood and funky rustic natural shapes: the middle one is heavy old weathered mahogony, bottom is from a sycamore log.
Last week , I experienced a very exciting ritual and rite of passge for a carpenter: I milled my own lumber.
Pictured below are the logs from home, some loaded to my truck and others into a white truck. The white truck belongs to a carpenter with his own shop who wants to team up with us on some stuff and send some work his way, namely for wood turning. So we brought two trucks of timber. He had experience with milling so he coordinated our effort at the mill, and I enlisted my other friend YunJae to help with some translation and moving boards around.
The logs were collected from around this village and another and some had been sitting for a year or two. It was a big day and finally all the lumber was stacked to dry in my shop. Only a few boards are ready t ouse.. otherwise some will be a few months. We paid to fall one tree but otherwise the wood was free, the milling and associated costs , transport, lunch etc. came to about 500$ . The lumber is worth, all old, about 6 times that.
i was quite gleefull all day , waching each cut reveal the grain and good quality. Over half was hardwood.

Not enough spring flowers yet. Or any for that matter, so I bought flowers for indoors. With a dirty and cheap lens, my camera still captures nice images.