"I telephoned Esther at her business/home in Bandera, Texas and ordered a 29" high white pelican sitting on a 24" high post. A few months later it was finished, delivered and now stands guard in our front yard in the Villages - the world's premier retirement community in Lady Lake, Florida.

Esther Benedict has an extraordinary talent, and everybody that has seen her work says the same thing. She has the skill and the hands to make perfection out of an idea or thought."