In response to overwhelming public demand, I did mention “Saturn Devouring His Children” although with the caveat that it was very weird and scary and I would never put it on the wall for fear of getting up in the night to get a glass of water and having a heart attack, and offered a […]
Monthly Archives: February 2005
I am trying to fill out an interview sent to me by a fourth grade class. This is harder than it should be. The questions are somewhat generic, which isn’t too bad–I mean, interview questions are almost always pretty generic, so you learn to work around it. The tough part is trying to be clear […]
Caught another big-eyed mousey visitor under the sink. Asked James to take him to work to release him. James gave me a look. Guess not. I was reading about deer mice yesterday, and evidentally my catch and release program is pretty damn futile. Deer mice will travel over a mile, cross rivers, and ignore better […]
Two flickers are jockeying for position at the suet, in a bizarrely symmetrical display of grumpiness. Meanwhile, Notch the squirrel has returned and is contentedly sitting in the shallow dish of birdseed on the deck. Gimpy was around earlier, and got into a chase with (him? her?) but once they hit high speed, you can’t […]
Dude! Why have I never heard of this? Has it been debunked yet? Has anybody else heard about the Carolina dog? Supposedly descendants of the domestic dogs brought over on the landbridge lo those many moons ago, they’re supposed to be a North American equivalent of the dingo, living in the swampy areas of the […]
I am taking today off. I don’t actually care all that much about the birthdays of various presidents–I have been known to forget my OWN birthday, let alone those of long dead statesmen. (Seriously, I had one time where I could not figure out why I kept writing 5-28-77 instead of 5-28-99, and spent a […]
I am waiting for an idea. There’s a certain irony to this. I need more ideas the way I need more deer mice in the cupboards crapping on the silverware. (Speaking of which, I caught one this morning, and didn’t even bother trekking out to the empty field to release it–it’s bloody cold out and […]
Having spent several days skulking around the windows like some kind of birder ninja, I figured I’d share a few more photos of the birds that frequent my area… I think this is a house finch. I could be wrong. http://www.metalandmagic.com/Images/LJimages/housefinch9.jpg After days of flying off whenever I approached, finally the northern flicker started to […]
All’s well that ends well–while I had a spectacularly unproductive day yesterday, I did manage to finish off a nagging hanging project, pending revisions, and all those little bird photos turned out for the best, because my mother e-mailed to ask if I had any good bird photos because she’s working on a painting for […]
I did manage to do this over the last few days. It’s another experiment with oil pastel–I just can’t get the tight detail I like, but I love some of the texture effects, so I keep trying. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/15226559/