An aging live oak at the Lambermont event house in Government Hill was carved into an angel last year as an alternative to uprooting it.
The sculpted angel at the Lambermont event house on East Grayson Street was made from a dying oak tree, which was cut down from a six-story tree to a 12-foot-tall trunk. Home co-owner Dona Liston believes the tree had been planted a few years after the home was completed in 1894.Dona Liston first saw the angel in the dying tree about two years ago.
“I just kept looking at it and kept looking at it, thinking, ‘I see an angel. I see an angel. What can I do about this?’ ” she said. Dona Liston with an oak tree trunk sculpted into an angel at the Lambermont event house she owns with her husband Pat. The oak tree dated back to the 1890s when the house was built. In 2021, the tree was cut down due to disease, then sculpted into an angel a year later by South Padre Island artist Andy HancockThe tree angel has become a must-have photo op for Lambermont wedding parties and passers-by alike, Liston said.
“It was lovely to bring it out of the tree because the tree was so great," said Andy Hancock, who also carves life-sized dolphins and other sculptures from recycled Texas hardwoods in addition to runningListon became aware of his skills last spring when a friend in the Rio Grande Valley posted some of Hancock's artwork online.
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