Tur Bo in front on point Dolly behind honoring
My new dog.
My new dog.
My new dog.
A couple of weeks ago my daughter-in-law, Kelly Jones, texted me that she woke up about 5:00 am and couldn’t go back to sleep so she went on my face book, found pictures of my English setter, Tur Bo and made a sculpture of him. She took a chunk of clay and formed him. She sent me a couple of pictures, of the dog without paint, with the text. Even without paint it was great. I recognized Tur Bo immediately.
A week or so later my wife, June and I went to Smithville Lake to get some pictures of eagles. We were only gone about 3 hours. We saw some eagles but nothing close enough to photograph. After we returned we were sitting, watching television and June pointed at the fireplace mantle and said, “you’ve got your dog.” Our son, Ryan and Kelly had stopped by and put the sculpture on the mantle. After she painted it, it was perfect.
When I hunt Tur Bo, he has an orange kennel collar, a green Sport Dog e-collar and an orange Garmin GPS collar on. The sculpture has each collar in the correct color. Kelly’s detail is so exact that I believe the spots on his ticking are exactly placed. Kelly worked with several pictures of Tur Bo but the one she used the most is the first picture in this post. That picture was taken about a year ago on a Kansas walk-in hunting property. Tur Bo was pointing a single quail and his mother Dolly was honoring.
I put pictures of the sculpture on two sites on face book and have about 150 likes. That’s pretty good for someone who doesn’t have that many face book friends.
I told Kelly that she had vaulted into first place in my favorite daughter-in-law contest. She thinks that the competition is not real great since she is my only daughter-in-law.
Kelly did a great job on this sculpture and I will cherish it always. Thanks Kelly.