Labors of Love: Wounded and Mended Large Old Erzgebirge Animal Fleet carved ball in cage whimsy ” Jones carved animals and

” Jones carved animals and figures from tree branches while out hunting in the woods of West Virginia

or put to some other creative use

Away from the merry bands

on one side

Labors of Love: Wounded and Mended Large Old Erzgebirge Animal Fleet carved ball in cage whimsy ” Jones carved animals andWell, of course I had a bring these home with me! Some wonderful person before me (I think of them as a soulmate!) took each of these wounded Erzgebirge animals and gave them new life by gluing their feet to plinths and, for a few with two or more legs lost given them a peg leg to balance them out! I have to believe there is someone out there who will love these empathetic creatures as much as I do, so here they are, in all of their wounded glory to