The finished piece that I'm working on in the top photograph, which I titled Treefrog". It appears to be a simple piece, but is actually fairly difficult.

With the electric chain saw I cut a two inch cross section from a small walnut log and roughed out a triangular area for the frog head. Then as I do with all pieces, I put the date on it and shelved it to dry. A piece this small and with so much end grain exposed will dry quickly, but as it turned out it sat on the shelf for over a year before I got back to it. So, it was dry, and fortunately had not cracked or warped.