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28 | OHCC LIVING | MARCH 2026 | Woodchucks Spring keeps f lirting — sunny smile, light jacket weather — then ghosting us with a cold snap the next day. Nevertheless, Jeff Hurley, a noted woodchuck member, has made a beautiful Tripoli game board with amazing marquetry. Marquetry is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns or designs. It is a painstakingly difficult technique, requiring many hours of trial and error. Jeff originally started doing marquetry after taking a woodworking and fine cabinetry making course at Palomar College. He has made other pieces that are equally amazing, but for this particular board game each individual figure is a different wood veneer. The background is a burled oak wood. Not only is it amazing to look at, but Jeff has designed a hinging apparatus so that it folds up into four smaller pieces. As it turns out many of our Woodchucks are also Fling golfers. If you're not aware of this new sport it involves one club and is played on a golf course using regular golf rules and golf balls. The club, called a Fling stick is made of fiberglass or carbon fiber with a basket at the end, similar to a smaller lacrosse stick. A few of our Woodchucks have devised a method to store and display their sticks as well as give homage to the United States Marine Corps. This piece in the photo was designed and built by the team of Len and Linda, Ambrosini, Bill Jones, Tom Murphy and Goldie Weis. Whether it's for artwork, one of our community projects or to just check off something from your "Honey Do" list, we Woodchucks cordially invite you to join us in our beautiful, well-appointed wood shop. You can find the necessary forms and waivers on the Woodchuck website or at the Clubhouse desk. Use of the wood shop is free with your membership. Hope to see you there. Written by Larry See The Photo Club will meet March 19 in the Lamia Room. We'll have a look at the photos we took at Safari Park in February. It's always interesting to see the different perspectives taken by different photographers. We're inviting participants to submit five to ten of their favorites taken at Safari Park. For our April and May meetings, we'll have presentations by club members of types of photography you don't see every day. In April, Graeme Hutton will talk about his solar pictures, which look amazingly dangerous, but he is uninjured. In May, Jeff Powell will talk about macro photography. The Photo Club is open to all residents. We meet most months in the Lamia Room at 1 pm on the third Thursday of the month. Dues are $10. Written by Jim McDonough, jamespmcdonough@gmail. com, (760) 593-9994 Photography