| In this carving, we find ourselves hiking the high country. The air is thin, the wildflowers are in bloom and all wild things are looking at their best. We break for a snack. Immediately our attention focuses on a Dahl sheep cresting a rock ledge a couple of hundred yards away from where we sit.
While admiring the sheep’s spectacular set of horns and healthy appearance through binoculars a large image just down the slope from the sheep redirects our attention. We set our focus on the intruder and realize it’s the approach of a large male grizzly. Oh my! It’s stalking that sheep on the ledge!
Each step the grizzly takes toward the sheep is precise and deliberate. Through our binoculars we can see the grizzly closing the gap towards the sheep. The anticipation of what is about to take place is extreme. The confidence of the sheep indicates it's already pre selected a rocky decent to escape. The bear on the other hand thinks the sheep has ‘Nowhere to Run’.
My second carving in sheep horn, I tried to capture a story of a trophy Dahl sheep being stalked by a grizzly. The horn is that of a Dahl sheep found as a winter kill in Alaska. The story, that’s fictional.
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