SILVER SPRING, Md. (WUSA) -- A Silver Spring homeowner is coming under fire for trying to turn a fallen tree into massive statue in his front yard. The 400-year old tree came crashing down during a strong storm two summers ago.
"I've lived here my entire life, for...more 43-years," said the homeowner, Jason Orenstein. "This is the tree that I used to sit under when I young."
So Jason Orenstein hired a different Jason - Jason Swain - to turn it into a work of art.
"I'm sculpting a majestic eagle coming coming into land on a branch," said Jason Swain of Billabong Art Studios.
"I'm trying to do something that's patriotic," said Orenstein. "I want to make this a commemorative that honors our country and our soldiers."
Swain has been working on the eleven-foot tall, 7,500 pound statue for the last six weeks. But Orenstein has been getting grief from the county since November, and he's got the paperwork to prove it. A county housing