Little Bitty Wood Cars

I love wood.

I love to walk and to camp under living wood.

I love the aromas of living wood and of wood that has come to my shop to be celebrated and handled by me.

I enjoy the discipline of celebrating the woods of the whole world in one small expression.

Twenty years of building Pinewood Derby Cars with my own son and with other people's kids, and I'm not remotely tired of it yet.  I have a whole long
list of other woods and projects to play with and to share.

These are some photos from my shop . . . just a few, because I have a meeting to go to tonight, and I have to take Big Sally the Shop Bus to a camporee this weekend.  And she's a mess.

The little red car is because people like to paint cars.  I love the grain of the wood to dance across my eyes.

OK; that's my first blog post.



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