Just an observation...

[Lee Slikkers]

If you are watching a show on TV and there is a scene with folks running through the woods and you are paying more attention the the trees and shape of the saplings as they pass through what does it mean?   

[dbb]

Hehe
You got the bug...bad!
Me? I just look at trees with a predatory glint in the eye 

/Mikael

[Cacatch]

I bet there are zero to few folks on this board that can NOT relate to what you are saying. I've done the same thing with "RealTree" camo designs. Tried to figure out what tree was what and if it would be good bow wood.

 

[SEMO_HUNTER]

Lee it means you have the same affliction as those of us who can't watch a movie like Robin Hood without noticing how nobody seems to be holding the bow right or coming to a consistent anchor point. 
I can't go on a family trip anywhere without watching for Osage or River cane growing along side the roadway and up through the ditches/fence rows.

Went to my uncle's house the other day for Memorial Day barbeque and noticed some nice Hackberry growing in the vacant lot acrossed from his driveway.

People who don't understand think I'm a little off. 

[Dag]

Walking through my college campus everyday is torture.  There is one complete tree garden comprised of about 25 White Ash trees, as well as various other great bow wood trees planted randomly throughout campus. Sigh 

[beetlebailey1977]

Yep I look at all trees as potential bows.  Plus looking for good cane as I go down the road.

[Lee Slikkers]

LOL, glad to hear I'm not the only "normal" guy around here.  Semo, just glued up a Hickory / Osage on the Traveling Caul form this morning (off work this week has been nice, have gotten LOTS of cools things in the works) and I after debarking and working down a Syringa stave last week I slipped it in the steaming rig and put it on another form to take out some bend and align the tips to the handle.  Might need a touch more heat in a few days to get a touch more movement in the handle.

Dag, was driving 2 ours away last weekend for a Pathfinder Campout weekend for my boys and drove past a 6 acre Arboretum and boy did I want to come back after dark and snatch a few "samples"  

Yup, got the bug bad but it's a good thing~

[Del the cat]

I was at a funeral a while back and noticed all the Hornbeam which had been copiced in the adjoining woodland .
Del

[Lee Slikkers]

I was at a funeral a while back and noticed all the Hornbeam which had been copiced in the adjoining woodland .
Del

Too funny..

[Elktracker]

Never used to let my wife drive before this addiction but I almost get in or cause more accidents since I started looking for bow wood while driving 55 down the highway. And I never used to get car sick until my bow addiction either now where ever we go im in the passenger seat looking at trees wiz by thinking to my self was that Ocean Spray ME "O that one had to be a Yew tree turn around honey I want to check that out, oops no it wasnt" Or I get out inspect the tree get back in and say "no it wasnt as straight as it looked when we wizzed by it" WIFE "Im not stopping again Josh!!!"

[HatchA]

Never used to let my wife drive before this addiction but I almost get in or cause more accidents since I started looking for bow wood while driving

I hear that!!!

[randman]

I was wondering last week if I am the only "sicko" that was looking at the tornado destruction in Missouri and (after
shedding a tear and saying a prayer for all the people involved) thinking "look at all that bow wood going to waste-
Oh the Humanity!"

[snag]

When I'm driving I'm always looking at the trees in the hills, people's yards, parks,......

[Badger]

   I have been feeling really guilty about thinkiing about bow wood while watching the tornado damage, I feel horrible for the poor folks who have lost everything and my mind still wanders over to the down trees. Thats addiction.

[George Tsoukalas]

I get aggravated when I walk by a stack of firewood. What a waste of bow wood! Jawge