This is clearly not the spectacular photos you pay to see here. (But nice Bokeh) I am coming home late tonight and this was one of two back-ups that I prepared incase of emergency. What is unique about Santa you may ask. Well, this one is unique as it is the only one in the world. That must qualify, right? This fellow with his bag of toys about to descend the chimney is one I carved a last month. In my on-going quest to learn Flat Plane Carving, he is number 37 for the year. Hoping to get to 52 but it is not looking good. I am completing 44 this week, still, 8 more in two weeks is a stretch. More to the point, I am learning, a bit. What I am really learning is how much I don’t know and that is a good thing for the process of any skill. For example, I get lots of “fuzzies” and I make too many shallow cuts on edges and I still don’t know how to cut a smooth line across grain and, actually what I don’t know would exceed the legal limit of this page. But thanks for looking and tomorrow, back to the spectacular. Maybe:)