(Canscene) …up sprang a family of dolphins.When Hurricane Juan hit Nova Scotia in 2003, one of its victims was a magnificent Dutch Elm, uprooted in Stellarton near Halifax.Alex MacLeod carved this pod of 15 dolphins from a single hunk of wood from that tree. Taking several years to complete, the sculpture is 14 feet in length and not a single piece of wood was added on to the sculpture.

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