What an inspired idea: wood embroidery. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/n…

The hardest part of a workshop with no power tools: resawing. I’m not very good at holding my line, but getting better with time. Also, good exercise.

A frame saw on a workbench resawing a cherry board.

Starting a new project: a cabinet with sliding doors in (more or less) mid-century style. Spent several hours with a bunch of cherry deciding what would be used where.

60 board feet of cherry wood layed out on garage floor

Fly poison in bloom in the mountains, a native type of lily.

fly poison (type of native lily) in the forest

The forest is at peak fern this time of year. There are hay-scented ferns as far as you can see (which, admittedly, isn’t very far in the forest).

A huge swath of ferns in the forest