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December 26, 2007


eyes of raven.
Whidbey Island, Washington  The tallest I ever worked previously was 20feet, restoring a historic totem pole on Seattle’s Lake Union.  

Me adding some finishing touches on bear on Seattle's Lake Union Totem.

It took me a few good hours for my air legs to develop.  At the bottom of all this was a Seattle PI photographer clicking away the whole time…adding pressure.  I did the beak repair on eagle and lowered the lift.  When I arrived back to Earth the photographer showed what landed during my frightful flight, a Peregrine Falcon that fledged early. It drifted down from up high nesting underneath the I-5 bridge.  It was struggling to fly again.  I felt a kinship with the falcon.

A woodland park zoo representative arrived taking the falcon away.

So I found myself again up high, this time 35feet…working on raven.  I was uncomfortable at this height, the shake of the scaffolding.  I fell off a ladder once trying to put in a florescent light bulb.  The height was only 10 feet but I landed on my back but on concrete, great pain.  Now, I’m on 5 tiered scaffolding with a chainsaw struggling to make raven come to life in this pole.  But I got my air legs, it took a couple weeks, and by the end of the two months, I was flying around the top.

from the top looking down, yes those are my feet.

some of the tools of the trade.

sun in ravens chest.

moon with stars

canoe paddler

his feet.

eyes of the whale

one day on the scaffolding, the light shining thru.