Pruning and my serpette

Spring is almost here… I think, and I have uncovered and pruned the grapes and have been looking at apple trees a lot.  A traditional tool for pruning is the serpette (french word for a “pruning knife”).  I recently picked up a repro of a serpette from a friend in a trade.  It was made by John “Smitty” Smith of WI and is a small folding serpette with a boxwood handle. Anyway, this is a slick...

New photos from an old event

Earlier I posted the link to the YouTube video put out by the State Historical Society on the Madeline Island Fur Trade Weekend. When shooting for this video, my wife (shown in the video) and I (as well as dog, Jolie) were “shot” as Wisconsin Creole/French-Canadian Farmers ca. 1800. Although most of us ended up on the editing room floor, I recently recieved some nice still photos from the photographer, Chad...