My favorites are the Sailor’s Hornpipe, Sabrina as Katilla, and the Seaman’s Prayer.
Judy’s Number Game – #62
Last on the Card February 2025
One of the kitchen window gardens has LED lights. I grow carnivorous plants, orchids, A large rosemary plant, and some early basil. Checking the plants, and trying new challenges every year helps me get through the sucky months when I can’t have a garden outside. Be gone February!
Judy’s Number Game – #62
In late January I attended a major train show in Western Massachussetts, the giant live-steam engine was on display
Around Christmas Marcu got into the holiday spirit
Sabrina has many select spotss to sleep on, but she loves the afghans best of all.
This whirling circle chip carved design is technically difficult, but lovely.
This tiny tray was carved in occupied Japan by a master who knew how to get the maximum effect with the minimum number of cuts.
My friend Ed Menard (AKA Birdman II) carved this lovely fan in cedar.
And talking about cuts, here is a sword rack with my boken ( wooden practice sword), small tanto sword (short Japanese style sword), and my Menjo ( certificate) As a 3rd Dan black belt in Iaido ( Japanese swordsmanship).
Judy’s Number Game #60
1.) Sabrina loves red, red pillows. red blankets, or red towels
2.) In 2005 I taught a class in marine carving to students at WoodenBoat School, in Maine. There was interest in how I carved boat portraits, so I did a fast carving of this little catboat. All the students signed it, and we hung it on a wall.
3. The Blue Ribband- the prize awarded to the ship with the fastest transatlantic passage. Made obsolete by air travel in jets.
4. I call this my trash wood eagle. I had just had some major eye surgeries and needed to work on relearning to carve with my altered vision. The wood was literally a piece of trash white pine picked out of the burn pile. I didn’t expect it to turn out very well.
Judy’s Number Game – #58
- First of course is her Imperial Majesty, Xenia inside my photographic light box waiting for her photo shoot.
- Some of the seed catalogs from several years ago.
- Max trying on holiday beads for a festive Christmas look.
- A friend of mine painted and applied this design for the local Meeting House in Shirley, Massachusetts.
- One of my gallery walls is covered in display items I used to take to boat shows.
- From ancient times, the invitation to one of my cookouts, featuring the Grey Menace, my cat Clancy whoose favorite snack was O negative blood.
- The pediment on a bank building – I believe in Portland, Maine.
Judy’s Number Game – #57
a sign for sale at the” “Oldies Marketplace” in Newburyport. I liked the sentiment!
One of the paintings on the wall of the Cat Alley coffeehouse, on Cat Alley.
Mushrooms in the woods
Her Imperial Majesty, Xenia napping
Orchids tickling
A hurricane off the coast of Massachusetts
Judy’s Number Game # 65
And the number is – 177:
- I hang pictures and drawings in the shop of ships I might be interested in doing portraits of ( sometimes commissions). Eventually I pick one and get started on the design. Hercules is still in the maybe file.
- The Science Museum in Boston had an outstanding display of model trains in 2023. This is a “night shot”.
- Max is wearing glasses and looking not too pleased.
- Berry bowls and small miniature wetlands are something I make in the fall. This one has a small fern, some partridge berries, and a small drosera carnivorous plant. The are fun to tend in the winter months, and remind you of the summer woods. You need to be careful that they do not dry out; most of the plants are bog and wetland plants ( all gathered responsibly or purchased so).
- For a carver finding old tools can be the best way to find what you need. Modern toolmakers don’t make the range of tools that were available years ago. this is a small group of fine old tools I purchased. They are from the early 20th century, and I estimate I am their third owner.
- The Steam Yacht Zaida was a project I did a few years ago. It is carved in pine with some cherry for the cabin soles. Steam Yachts were the height of yachting luxury at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
Judy’s Number Game – #55 – January 6, 2025
And the number is 176:
- A carving of a schooner in rough seas – with motto
- A figurehead at the Peabody Essex Museum in Alem, MA
- A polite warning was found in Rockport, MA
- Model of the Queen Elizabeth in the Peabody Essex Museum
- Sabrina found a hideout beneath the model railroad
- Carving of a small eagle head for attachment to an eagle – you carve the eye first!
- Her Imperial Majesty Xenia, at her leisure
- Herb being dried
- Public fountain in Burlington, Vermont.
Judy’s Number Game #54
…and the number is: 175
- A ghost sign near Boston’s North End
- A “Pete’s Dragon” inspires windvane visible from within a Rockport, MA restaurant
- A lurid movie poster from an exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, MA.
- Two orchids are getting acquainted.
- Compass rose design painted on rock at Portland Head Light, Maine
- A mast hoop portrait of a Town Class Sloop – a progress photo taken while I was fitting the carving to the hoop
- An old architectural stone carving was exposed when the 1950s facade was removed from the old building for restoration.
Judy’s Number Game # 53
And the number in Judy’s Game this week is 174:
The first photo is from my most favorite location to search for all sorts of inspiring goodies – The Oldies Marketplace In Newburyport, MA – if they don’t have it you won’t need it.
Then there is this interesting welded globe, which is meant to be a fire pit – for the person who wishes to set the world on fire!
Then we hacve a late PM scene in the summer – also Newburyport.
I had a number of aerial pumpkins this year they grew suspended, and only as they gained weight descended to the ground.
And of course my messy shop. Always remember a clean shop is a sign of mental illness – I am very sane!
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