The Sources
Who would create canes out of wood like this?
Me, of course!
Made from long dead Eastern Red Cedar trees (Juniperus Virginiana) each stick is meticulously (and painstakingly) hand crafted. Source material is found by wandering old undeveloped land (New England) and coming across fallen trees.
Each branch or small trunk is aged by many things: sun, wind, rain, snow, animals, insects, fungi, bacteria. For a long while these fallen trees are an ecosystem of themselves, part of the whole in which they grew.
When time has passed to a point in where the tree has become mostly tree; insects having ended their life cycle or moved on, leaving only traces of their lives in the wood, the bark drying and flaking away...
... and then someone like me happens by. With a little saw.
Before my canes and walking sticks are sticks they were trees. Dead trees tell tall tales. Birds live on them, squirrels climb on them, millions of teeny tiny things live in them.
Not only eaten by bugs and larvae, the dead trees are fungi food too, and food for mosses and lichens. They are, as the National Wildlife Federation says, a "gourmet restaurant for wildlife."
This there long dead old tree not far from where I live has offered me many of its branches for sticks for you... And itself for untold numbers of things that have left their art and design upon it...
