Tossed an oak burl on the lathe today and some neat stuff was sure hiding in there

I turned a cedar tree into a bowl of chocolate chip ice cream YouTube video by justinthetrees

Back at it again with more tree flavored ice cream, this time the chocolate mold making process nearly broke me lol youtu.be/qUtCZwUbMic?...

What Does Tree Bark Ice Cream Taste Like? YouTube video by justinthetrees

Had so much fun making the oak wood ice cream that I decided to turn this all into a full blown series
youtu.be/xMwZb9U_kUs

I love scrub jays so much. I can’t explain it but they always remind me of Bernie Sanders.

Decided to mess around and try and test my longstanding belief that neat wood could make neat jewelry.

A tremendous watch. Put perfectly into words the thing I’ve been mulling over for a real long time. Great great stuff.

Had a tiny piece of redwood burl leftover from the state tree map and am very excited I finally found something cool to make with it. Stay tuned.

This book dropping at what feels like the perfect time. Required reading for what’s ahead of us.

(Also earlier this year I planted some of Miles’s ashes under a serviceberry tree so I’m even more of a big ol’ target than you’d already expect.)

Leftism is when condiments

I settle for telling ‘em they’re neat at every opportunity

Made this from a log pulled off a trash pile, never gets old finding this kinda stuff hiding under a layer of weathered gray bark. Nature! It’s neat!

thanks for attending my first get to know a tree thread! If you ever get to hang out with a Limber Pine I highly recommend it! Also, if you have Limber Pine pics to share with the class please do! Okay thanks bye!

I love their cones a lot, they’re big and friendly and just overall very satisfying. (Also the easiest way to differentiate from the bristlecone pine whose cones are much smaller and have those bristley spines)

Like many other pines that live in harsh conditions, it has a symbiotic relationship with the Clark’s Nutcracker, who will bury caches of its seeds over winter and some forgotten ones will eventually become big ol’ Limber Pines someday

Couple famous limbers include “Twister” who lives in Alta, UT and is 1,700 years old and one at Whirlpool Point in Alberta, Canada estimated to be 3,000 years old (estimated)

Get to know a tree! Today it’s perhaps my favorite species of pine: the Limber Pine, Pinus flexilis.
•They’re big and lumpy and gnarled
•They can get live four 1,000+ years
•Big, friendly cones!
•They are, INDEED, limber (helps them survive at extreme altitudes and sway to the wind

idk what to do here, if nothing else, here’s a really cool juniper log