No one said anything when Dennis Baba began turning the stump of a South Land Park tree into a roughly 4-foot-tall squirrel.
A company had taken down a silver maple tree in the front yard of a South Land Park Drive home near 43rd Avenue in January. Homeowners Laura and Dave Bell commissioned Baba, who began making chainsaw art carvings in 2024, to transform the stump in late April.
When the project became clear to people passing by, they started stopping to watch. Some people even made multiple trips…