southern cicada close up and personal

Written By Robin Wade

closeup of the southern cicadaThe Southern Cicada

For the past couple of months, there's been an eery buzz ringing in many Southerners' ears.  The eery sound od the cicada, added to the summer nature sounds of the frogs, grasshoppers at times is almost deafening.

I don't really understand the lifecycle of these extra large insects, but I can recognize their call from blocks away.  They must be good protein, because my dogs gobble them up after they die off and fall out of the trees around here.  They drive Linda nuts, but I enjoy their unique addition to the neighborhood as stop by and visit every few years (seems like more often than seen!)

Southern cicada

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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