Mimosa tree and Mattie posing at Cypress Bend

Written By Robin Wade

Gosh, summer was here in full force this weekend.  With temps in the mid 90's, it was a perfect weekend for several cool downs in Cypress Creek.  Since the Great Cypress Creek Raft Race, I don't think I've ever seen so many folks floating the creek.  I really love seeing this.  But I really hate seeing the creek littered.  There was a great group of a local fraternity enjoying it Saturday.  The couple floating behind them saw at least a dozen fresh, empty beer cans following behind.  Seems like some fraternity education might be in order.  And maybe even a fraternity organized creek clean up soon??  

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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