Artist Reply: Thank you Joe, hope you've been busy?

Artist Reply: Thanks so much Mike, the wood is rather special in many ways, it is Scottish Caladonian Pine, extreemly resinous and a fallen victim after a gale, the forest is several hundred years old on the side of a hill and local landmark in the Grampians of Scotland, this wood was growing in a hut circle too! This subject to keep you waiting I shall cover when I upload an image of another carving from this tree that also took me three days to get down of the hill! Not forgetting special thanks to the Landowners who allowed me to take the wood`Roger & Beth'.