Some of my most favorite Christmas gifts this year came from folks who don't even know me. All are in Galveston:• On Winnie Street, a Santa Claus-hatted Tin Man
• On Postoffice, a beautiful angel holding a rabbit
• On Ball Street, a striking pair of blue herons, also sporting Santa hats and mufflers.
And there are a lot more -- all carved out of trunks from trees killed by Hurricane Ike.
A number of sculptors have taken a unique approach to helping the Island (and all of us devastated by Ike) restore damaged spirits. They're creating beauty out of dead trees.
The most prolific of these sculptors, Jim Phillips of Clear Lake, credits Donna Liebbert of the Galveston Island Tree Conservancy, who knew of similar post-hurricane artistic triumphs in Mississippi. Donna persuaded the city fathers to allow sculptors to try their hands with some "stumps" at City Hall.
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