Well,
I would have liked to head back out to the wood nymph, but it has been raining all day today. I can only imagine what the spongy wood must be like when it is soaked.
( maybe it would carve better!) I didn't want to get wet and my chisels needed a little touching up. So I sharpened up several of the work horses and decided to test them out on a small piece of scrap pine. Nothing fancy,
it's just that pine is rather soft, similar to the semi-rotted wood outside. I kept it simple: just a basic feather. I could have cleaned up some of the edges or set the background down a Little better, but it was just to test the sharpness
of the chisels. As I was walking around the woods with the cat tonight, I realized the usefulness of Chisels as opposed to Power carving ( chainsaws, dremels, etc...) I could not get an extension cord back that far from the house.
And chainsaws are just noisy and perhaps a little overkill on some of the finer detail. Well, It took me a while to carve that simple feather, but with power tools I could have carved it up a little faster. Granted, I'm more familiar with the dremel than the chisels, But I'm trying to change that a little bit at a time. Maybe next time, I'll carve an acantheus leaf.
I started a new carving back in the woods. 
This time I wanted to try something a little different, so I started carving a fish, specifically, a Koi. I only had an hour and a half before Cheryl wanted to go to the beach again. I had
a tough time finding good wood since almost 2 inches of the outer ring was rotted. I still probably left too much bad wood on there, but time was short, and my chisels were kinda dull today. 
So tonight will be a sharpening party. The Skies were rather gray 
this evening, so the sun set was not to be. We did find a cool feather though, Cheryl and I are still guessing what bird it could have come from.
