Puppy's first kayak trip down Cypress Creek

Written By Robin Wade

Puppy's first kayak trip down Cypress Creek

  puppy's first water experience  puppy's first trip down cypress creek  alabama creekBella-Architect Joey Leavitt's pupp decided to escort us this trip (the brown one).

Great timing this past weekend.  I sooo needed to some R&R, and our new golden retriever has now had all her shots and the vet (I mean Linda) ok'd her to take her first trip down Cypress Creek.  I don't think there's a better way to commune and get (my mind) back to a calm creative place that right in the middle of nature.  And for me, immersion is almost manditory.

We are so fortunate to have this beautiful natural wilderness surrounding us.  And it's really good to see more and more folks enjoying it.  Having lived on the creek most of my life, I typically simply put in behind the house, paddle upstream to our favorite spot - just below the old brick plant and confederate uniform plant where the creek turns and the water really flows.

Puppy's first kayak trip down Cypress Creek

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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