Taking a leisurely stroll or biking down Canby’s Logging Road Trail, visitors may notice a memorial bench along a stretch of the trail.
But now, if folks turn around and look across the trail, there’s a tree with a trio of professional wildlife carvings on it. The bench and the tree carvings have a commonality to them – Nicholas Myers.
Myers was recently commissioned to do something fun with a tree right across from the bench and delivered multiple scenes of wildlife, with possibly more to come.
“It all started because of the memorial bench I was commissioned to do for a family,” Myers explained. “A man named Bob Grady saw it and thought it would be cool to do something on the tree right across from it. They contacted me to do a commission on the trail so everyone who uses it will have something to enjoy.”
In all, it took Myers, who lives in Eugene, the better part of the weekend to get things in place and get the work done. As he worked, Canby community members took notice.
“I think one of the really interesting things to me was how the community really wanted me to go all the way to the top of the tree,” Myers said. “If we can go all the way to the top, that’s where the good, workable wood it. It would cost significantly more money to get me to the top, but there’s a campaign on Facebook on a page called CanbyNow that is trying to raise some money for it.