The Bear with the Fish

Meredith showed me an ornamental wood carving the other day, that of a bear with a fish in its mouth. What was interesting about it is that the wood came from an oak tree at the farm we had removed some years ago as it became too big for the situation. Meredith grew the tree from an acorn she collected in Melbourne Botanic Gardens way back in the early 1970's when we moved to Emerald. Jod sent a lump of wood to his woodcarver friend in WA, Don Neil? (there were twins, Don and Eric I think, at Syndal Tech with Jod). Some time later the wood came back as a bear with a fish in its mouth.