Tree Carvings

When Hurricane Ike struck in 2008, many of the old trees were destroyed.

Some were broken by the high winds and others killed by the salt water surge.

Residents and artists went to work on the resulting stumps and created some funny, some beautiful, and some amazing sculptures.

The angel is holding a bunny.

This pelican is facing the house.

This carving is in the playground of a school.

Something fishy here!

Something fishy here, too, in the pelican's mouth!

At the childhood home of King (his name not a title) Vidor, a producer who worked on the movie Wizard of Oz, a carving of Todo and the Tin Man.

Dogs are a popular theme. 

The Fire Station has a wooden dalmation

and the next house has a 

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Great Dane looming over the fence.

The cranes are the most intricate and life-like carving.

Of course dolphins are a popular figure. You see them so often in the bay.