THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber by ...

Carving detail is all done by hand with chisels. Tom even has created portrait carvings. "Carving is all mistakes. Everything about carving is a mistake. You actually build upon mistakes," he said of ...

When last winter’s wind storms whipped the tall ponderosa pines in Bert and Betty Wolfrum’s backyard, they thought the trees might blow down. The tops of the three trees were already split and the ...

TRAVERSE CITY — A familiar sight along the Boardman River is getting a second life this month, thanks to the work of a local artist. The cottonwood tree at the river’s mouth died earlier this year and ...

When Milwaukee residents Mike Connell and Katie Major donated their 30-foot evergreen tree to the City of Milwaukee for its Christmas tree last fall, they likely didn't imagine the route the tree ...

If you happen to be driving along La. 25 between Covington and Folsom, you might do a double take at the sight of a 15-foot wooden alligator tipped on its tail alongside the road, or a gigantic carved ...

ELKHART LAKE - When visitors go to state and national parks across the United States, they may have the chance to see wildlife, like bears, bison and moose. But what visitors to America’s “national ...