At the 2017 Magic of Marble Festival I decided to carve an egret. I'd seen quite a few in the salt marshes of Coastal Georgia, especially around Savannah and St. Simon's Island. It was a fun piece to carve. My original intention was to mount it onto two steel legs painted black and anchored by feet to a metal plate, facilitating its placement in my backyard garden. After weighing the finished carving I scrapped the idea because the body of this bird was too heavy for the skinny legs the real waterfowl has. Instead, I mounted it on a wheat-colored granite slab to give the illusion that this egret is sitting in the brown marsh grasses of late summer along the Georgia coast.
