Faye Braaten started out with a 10-foot tall tree stump in the yard of an old HP Building at 302 SE Third St. and finished with a column of flowers, vines and a little girl nestled in a hollow.

Last fall, my wife and I bought our first acreage, and this is the beginning of the first spring I have ever had to deal with a massive yard. (3.3 acres, with only 1 needing to be mowed every week.) ...

DELEON SPRINGS - To a homeowner wanting to eliminate yard debris, tree branches and stumps are trash, but Sam Knowles sees birds, bears, alligators, turtles, moose, and fish hiding in them. Knowles ...

DIVIDE • Michelangelo saw the angel in the marble and carved until he set it free. Johnny Busby sees the bear, eagle or bigfoot in a tree stump, and whittles at it with a chainsaw until he sets it ...

Roy Pilcher used to just do everything with a chainsaw, creating rough-hewn carvings of animals, people or whatever else his clients wanted using just the one tool. "But, see, you can't put in eyelids ...