The above oak tree was a causality of Hurricane Ike. It is on Baker Street in Tomball which I travel often. I watched the artist sculpting the tree from my car as I traveled back and forth on Baker Street. I figured the cougars had something to do with the cougar being the mascot of Tomball High School.
I found a youtube video that our local Tomball Potpourri News made that explains it all. The artist who carved the tree is Master Wood Carver Nathan Smith, a local Tomball artist. He carved two cougars in a rocky cliff setting out of this fallen oak tree. Yes, the cougars are in recognition of The Tomball Cougars.
Please click here to watch the Youtube vidoe about the Tomball Cougar art sculptor! It is a very cool video and you can even watch Nathan Smith sculpting the cougars.
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That is fantastic!
Marchel,
Isn't that great? A beautiful tree turned into a beautiful sculpture. Very nice. :)
Steve
Absolutely amazing. This is a great piece of art.
Hi Marchel, One of the nice surprises in life is some of the astounding treasues that other leave behind for us and others to wonder about. I hope we all have something to leave behind that will be as interesting as this tree sculture is. Pretty darn cool.
Marchel- that tree is beautiful. I so appreciate the eye of an artist. I believe we get to have that adopted eye as bloggers. Expression in all forms is so beautiful, real and true.
Nice wood stump carving. We have a few local men who do chainsaw carvings it is fun to watch.
Marchel, That is absolutely amazing....the talent some people have is incredible.
Marchel,
What a wonderful way to turn a crisis into beauty! I am sure it must have been a beautiful tree. At least it can still serve a purpose.
Enjoy the Weekend!
Judy
Hi Marchel, This is really something! I would echo Judy's sentiment about turning a crisis into something beautiful - totally awesome! Thanks for sharing this one.
It's amazing how you can breath life back into something that's dead.
Marchel, what a creative use of that tree. It sure beats cuting the rest of it down for fire wood.
That's a beautiful sculpture, and a beautiful piece of art. It's just amazing what some people can do. Those 'cats' look about ready to pounce. :)
PAT, I think it is very INCREDIBLE also!!
STEVE, It is beautiful! I drive by it all the time and enjoy the art!!
JOAN, Isn't it amazing what you can do with a chain saw!!
WILLIAM, I think it is pretty darn cool also! Did you watch the video of him sculpting it? I drove by a number of times while he was working on it.
REBECCA, My daughter has that artist eye and it is such a gift but you are right it can be in the eye of the beholder.
CARON, This was my first experience with wood carving and I thought it was VERY COOl!!
CAROLE, I'm with you!! I can follow a pattern but to just do something like this from scratch is beyond my comprehension.
JUDY, I don't remember this particular tree but there are bunches like it in Tomball and I'm sure it was beautiful! I'm glad to see that they preserved the beauty of it!!
MARY, We still see the ravages of Hurricane Ike around here almost a year later. It is nice to see something of beauty come out of what could have been just a dead tree stump.
SUESAN, Isn't that amazing! Your words remind me of what Jesus did for us on the cross!
GEORGE, It is now something of beauty that can be enjoyed by all.
SYLVIA, The cats do look ready to pounce. There's a gecko on the backside. Someday I will have to do a post of the back of the cougar tree.
Marchel - That is a terrific piece of sculpture and I am glad you shared it.
Neat carving. Featured in Fridays Fotos...
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.... just as i thought! I KNEW i'd find another awesome picture posted by you with particulars added to make it adventurous for us all... like a mini encyclopedia - right here in the rain!
Marchel
Now that is a great piece of yard art. Don't tell my wife or she will want to transplant it!
Pretty cool.... looks like they could just jump off on ya.
Marchel - That is such detail and a beautiful carving of the cougars in a tree. Very cool.
How wonderful! Glad you shared.
What a great way to make something amazing out of the destructiveness of nature.
Hi Marchel - What a cool looking piece of art! I bet that took weeks to complete.
MICHAEL, Thanks for the feature! I think it is very cool also!!
DIANE, Thanks and thanks for stopping by. I have missed your friendly face and words of wisdom.
TREY, Wouldn't that be way cool to have in your yard! I think it would be way cool to have the big tree also though.
SALLY, It does look like they could jump at you. My sister just spotted a bobcat on her property in Colorado. I'm thinking I don't want to come face to face with the real thing.
JOHN, I think it is very cool also. I love the detail. I will put the back side of the tree in another post. It has a gecko on it.
That's beautiful, and a great way to save a majestic old tree. One of my aunts lives in Tomball. She's a nurse at Tomball Regional Hospital.
Marchel What an idea - to create beauty from disaster - now I know why I didn't see it on Speechless Sunday :) Karen
Marchel, Such talent some people have.. Not I!
Marchel, that is such a cool piece of art. I love how they turned a situation that was not so great into something so beautiful.
I love the tree. It's so much nicer than cutting the tree down, or just lopping it off at knee level. I've seen some trees that have become birdhouse posts, and that's kind of fun.
RICKI, It is a fun piece of tree art.
CHRISTINE, It is a visible reminder of who is in charge. It is not us!!
BILL, It did take quite a while as I drove by several times when he was working on it.
RUSSELL, I love Tomball. I live very close and do a lot of marketing in Tomball. The people are just so friendly!!
KAREN, This does bring beauty out of destruction. When I was down at Galveston this summer they were doing similar things with the palm trees.
MONIQUE, I can follow a pattern but to do something like that from scratch is beyond my comprehension.
WENDY, It is a very cool piece of art. I think it is wonderful that they came up with the idea.
MARIANNE, So how do you make the tree a birdhouse post. It must be fairly tall.
Marchel - Somehow I missed this photo when you posted it Friday. The sculpture is really quite impressive!
Well, not that high. With our weather, trees snap off at all sorts of levels. And I've seen folks just top the darn thing with a birdhouse. Looks very out of place!
Hello Marchel,
Wow! What a talented artist! Absolutely amazing! Thank you for sharing!
Rita
That is really something. Art is so much fun. Thanks for sharing it with us.
That is super. I love the creativity of the artist. How anyone can look at a dead tree stump and bring it back to life like that is simply genius.
Does anyone know how to contact master carver Nathan Smith? I would love to have him carve a couple of trees on my retirement property
Cheryl, I'll bet you can stop at the house that has the cougar tree and they would be able to help you find him.