'I am still hearing chainsaws, but these are happy chainsaws,' said Cecily Pegues, of Decatur.
Cecily Pegues knows she has a big responsibility to her farm and, more importantly, her family. Her parents had bought the farm in Decatur just after World War II. It was the farm she grew up on while it grew on her. And that responsibility extends to the cows and even to the trees that used to stand in front of the home. If she could guess the live oak had been there"hundreds of years." When the"It's been a traumatic nine months. I'm still cleaning up," said Pegues.
The pine trees Pegues lost that line her property are now lines in the survival story. Roach and Hobbs have turned the destruction from the tornado into art. There is some form of carving, chain-sawing and painting on each of the 16 pine trees on the Pegues property. The trees have purposely placed pairings of animals that capture the spirit for Pegues. For example, the raven and the fox, spider and rabbit, wolf and bat, even a standalone bear.
She's thankful for a lot of things: for people like James and Mike McMillan who rushed to help clean up on the day of the tornado and beyond, and for those who have helped transform stubs of trees into works of art. The day WFAA arrived at the Pegues ranch, Roach was working on three beams of sunlight on the backside of one of the trees. Roach has a number of wood sculptures throughout the town of Decatur and takes pride in the craft.
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