Took several tries to work out this design and I’m still not sure I’m fully happy with it, but it does have a title: “How Shines the Sun,” a line from Goethe’s “Mailied” (May Song). So it may not be perfect, but it has pretensions.

@dwalbert I really love that sun. I've been reading American Peasant and (as you know) he's discussed some sun symbols in carvings. I found a sun carving on one of the oldest houses in town on a recent historic tour. I've been imagining a bookshelf with a sun on the rail above the top shelf.

@aa Yeah, I already have people asking if I carved these by hand. As if I might have used a CNC router.

@aa And thank you. :)

@jabel I'm imagining a rising sun, instead of the traditional shell carving, but that may lose the symbolism you want.

@dwalbert Yes, a rising sun was what I had in mind.