More by Tylor

I've been really busy with my summer internship, so haven't been updating this blog as often as I intend to.  I'm still doing things, but don't take the time to post about them.

My friend Tylor came over again last week and made a couple of knives.  Here are the parts for knife number one:

He sent me a picture of this knife when he had filled the 50 brass with epoxy and set the tang in.

 It looks really good!  I understand this is to be a gift.

And one made from a railroad spike.  They don't make truly superior blades, but a railroad spike (if it says HC on the head - not all spikes are created equal) can harden and make a decent blade.  And the "dragon scale" twist on the handle just looks really cool.

I will try to get some more stuff of my own done to share here before long.  But it is neat to share some of Tylor's work in the mean time.

Great Horned Owls

A friend of ours has a family of owls living on her property.  She let us know this morning that there was a good viewing opportunity and we hurried over.

Sadly, all I had was my phone, and trying to take decent pictures of a bird in a tree with a phone camera is not easy.  I may get some better photos from our friend, but for now here are blurry, mediocre shots of all three owls we saw today.

 Baby owl number 1.

 Baby owl number 2.

Watchful father owl.

All three seemed to be in sort of torpor, it being mid day.  But what fun to see these large predatory birds just sitting in the trees.