pepper tree plate

Re: Analyze this.

Al Crandall

>Starting at the bottom, I see a sandy beach and then the shoreline of the ocean, followed by a cloudy evening sky with the setting sun dropping below the clouds. You couldn't have painted a more clear picture. Really interesting. Thanks.

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Ryan McMullen - Memphis

>I see the sunset over the desert.

And that popped into my head even before I read the message of the post.

Ryan

Sunset, ocean, clouds.

steve antonucci in NW New Jersey

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Re: pepper tree plate

Chuck Ludwigsen

>Standing on the plains looking at the mountains with the sun setting in the distance.

I love highly figured wood!!! Great job helping it to show itself.

I Love it!

Jennifer@Indy.USA

>Hi E-

This is really neat. It's one of those hidden treasures that we discover sometimes while turning. Like breaking open a geode to find out what's inside!

Thanks for sharing it.

Jennifer

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Mike Rubes, Apex, NC

>Hi e,

That's really cool. Just curious, but I never heard of a "pepper tree"?

I really like the pic, I thought sunset over the water when I saw it.

Thanks for the pic,

Mike

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Don Henthorn Smithville, Texas

>Pepper tree is California Laurel which is called myrtlewood in Oregon, also known as bay, bayberry, pepperwood, etc.

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Duane C.Leach

>Isn't it amazing what you find when you least expect it. It's a beautiful piece.

Re: I Love it!

Keith Tompkins

>yep, that's pretty cool!

Calif. Pepper Tree def

e

>We got a lot of them and they can get quite big. it is concidered a pest tree here.

Family Anacardiaceae � Sumac family

Genus Schinus L. � peppertree

Species Schinus molle L. � Peruvian peppertree

being a part of the sumac family, itt has a white, milky sap tthat clogs everything up. i'm noot allergic to it, but people can have reactions. the woood moves and tears apart as drying ... a difficult wood to tturn but beautiful.

thanks for taking the ink plot test ... you all passed -- i saw the moon or sun rising through the clouds..

rise or set

Shawn - in ID

>I'm not a psychologist but find it interesting that everyone chimed in with a 'setting' sun/moon; you are the only one who came up with 'rising'. Hmmmm.

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Wally Dickerman at Green Valley, Az.

>It's the moon coming up over the mountains. I think that I can see a cactus, so it's a desert scene. Did you see this before you started turning it?

Wally

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e

>no, wally, i saw the color in the blank and oriented the grain to be balanced, but it wasn't unttil the piece was off the lathe that the image revealed iitself.

Re: rise or set

e

>well, maybe because i'm a morning person??? or maybe it's the drugs i'm on :>) ???

Look at the sunset!

Dominic Greco at home in sunny Richboro, PA

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