Mario Amaral

Tree growth of the tree is extremely rapid—a rare circumstance with trees having wood of firm texture. Especially in its early years does the tree grow with astonishing

white ceramic cat figurine on brown wooden table

Lawn jockey, or Jocko, or Groomsmen: an often diminutive statuette of a black horse attendant dressed in slave clothing, also called a Jocko. Groomsmen were often used as hitching posts. The origin of the groomsman is disputed, but it is accepted that they originated in the U.S. South. No longer as common since the civil rights movement. The "Cavalier" variation typically depicts a white figure. One legend has it that the first Groomsman was created at the commission of George Washington. 

Animal statues such as frogs, turtles, rabbits, deer, flamingoes and ducks are cast in plastic or cement. 

An agile tree-dwelling rodent with a bushy tail, typically feeding on nuts and seeds.