Yard Art

[Greg Just]

After seeing Kathy Marshall's mushrooms, I grabbed a couple of logs off the wood pile today and gave it a shot. These are from green silver maple. I figure that they will crack, so after I took these pictures, I coated the end grain with some sealer. It might help. the smaller one is about 9 inches tall and 6 inches wide and the larger one is 10 inches tall and almost 7 inches in diameter.

My 4 legged friend already has her eye on them. I think she is part woodchuck as she loves to chew wood, but hopefully not these. I plan to anchor them down with a metal rod in the bottom and pushed into the ground.

[Rick Markham]

Those are really cool!!

[David E Keller]

Pretty neat! They look great 'installed'.

[Ted Calver]

Greg, Those are great! You are gonna mess up your neighbors heads with those giant shrooms growing in the flower bed:D:D

[Faust M. Ruggiero]

The mushrooms are fun but very few craftsmen can turn a dog.
faust

[Bill Embrey]

Greg, those are cool. My neighbor had a maple limb that fell in a recent storm. She dragged it over beside her house and was waiting until someone could come over and cut it up and haul it away. Early one Saturday morning, I "borrowed the branch, cut down the pieces I could and made about a half dozen different shaped mushrooms.... They ranged from 4" high to about 8"... I took the finished mushrooms back and put them where the limb had been... A couple of days later we were watching when they discovered the mushrooms... It was fun... Both turning the mushrooms and watching the neighbor find them.

[David DeCristoforo]

"My 4 legged friend already has her eye on them. I think she is part woodchuck as she loves to chew wood..."

I don't think that's it. That dog is trying to figure out if those are fire hydrants or not.

[Michael James]

Totally cool..... I was wondering how you turned the dog, and then I read the thread. :)

[Donny Lawson]

That looks like a cool and neat project.

[John Keeton]

Nice job, Greg! Jamie Donaldson has done several of these, and some of them are quite large for use as garden ornaments - probably 18" or so tall.

[Baxter Smith]

Very cool Greg. Sometimes it is advantageous to not have a male dog.

[Bob Bergstrom]

With all the rain we've had Mother nature has provide all the mushrooms in my back yard that I can handle. Really nice looking though. It will be interesting to watch the change as the age.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Greg - those look pretty cool and make great garden ornaments! Hope the sealer works!

[Tim Thiebaut]

That is just to cool, I bet there are a lot of folks that would love to have some of those to but around their gardens and flower beds! Good job Greg.

[Doug W Swanson]

Those are really cool! I might have to make some for our garden!

[bob svoboda]

Great idea and nicely done, Greg. Love the dog too!

[Vicki Hayden]

Fantastic idea. They look great in your beautiful beds. Love the dog too! She is very beautiful.