Building a real live steam engine has been a dream of mine since reading a book on the subject at the local library when I was about 12.  Shortly after I was cutting up road signs, lawn chairs, and anything that seemed to have the right shape pieces of metal.  Needless to say, without proper […]

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It has often been said that Nature reproduces herself on many scales.  I had been diligently searching for the miniature representation of large Pine trees during various hikes in the Rocky Mountains but nothing really had the right texture.  I kept looking for something similiar to the Red Cedar of Northern Michigan that grows on […]

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