Trafalgar remembered

(Photo of Dave Johnson's work The Eternal Triangle from www.caerllion.net/art/sculpture03/johnson.htm )
I love it when art, history and nature collide. As in the case of Dave Johnson and the Trafalgar Oaks.
Johnson carves wood in Gloucestershire. And he was chosen to work his magic on one of Nelson's Oaks in the Forest of Dean on the east border of Wales to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.
To appeciate this, you've got to know that the Forest was a ship farm for the British navy 200 years ago. That's where the oaks came from that were planed into timber for those beautiful and fearful warships that ruled the seas. When Nelson the one-armed hero visited there in 1802, he directed that a bunch of acorns be planted for the good of the nation.
Of course the trees and their descendents outlived the wooden ship era, and since aluminum doesn't sprout, the Forest slipped in importance to the DOD.
Now comes the bicentennial of the great Battle. Nelson's trees, affectionately and historically known as the Trafalgar Oaks, are tapped to join the celebration. So Johnson is elected to do the job and will unveil the monument on the 22nd.
His work is beautiful- as you can see- elegant, well-designed and I can hardly wait to see the result.