Wood cutting

I haven't even shown you all of the fantastic sand displays and they will probably pop up in the blogs to come, but I wanted to show you something else as well.

There was a whole 'army'

The place we went to was originally a sculpture garden. Basically a small garden center that specialised in garden sculptures. For sale as well, although some of them wanted a wallet heavier than the actual sculpture! Some were more in our range, even if we didn't take any home, not even the sleeping cat. 

Through the wood chipper or turn into art?? 

Even though the main focus seems to be on the sand sculptures now, they still have a fair amount of other sculptures out in the 'garden' and in the parking area as well. Not sculptures that once built will remain for ever, but ones that will over time disintegrate and disappear. Very environmentally friendly.

Don't you dare let one rip!!!

Where some people work with sand to show their art, others take to the chainsaw and carve the most fantastic scenes out of trees and wood. Sometimes you can clearly see the origins (like the boar's head), other times it is a bit more difficult. 

However, also with these: the artistry and skill to make those beautiful sculptures is amazing! We weren't allowed to touch the sand sculptures (for obvious reasons), but most of the tree sculptures were okay to touch. Even this very angry bear!

An Elepus? Or an Octophant?

When we were driving away from the village, there were several trees that had been turned into pieces of art as well. Those trees were dead or dying and were then used to make something beautiful! No photos of that though: too blurry.