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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Happy Turkey Day!


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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

an exciting sight



        On Saturday afternoon, I delivered a painting of a polar bear to a customer & was driving back home. As I slowed for a red light, I saw a bird flying overhead, some sort of large raptor. I squinted to see what color it was
, dark body with a white head-and realized it was a bald eagle. As the U.S. emblem, eagles appear everywhere to symbolize patriotism, so it took a few minutes to process that I was seeing the actual bird and not a propaganda picture. I've never seen a wild bald eagle and to watch one flying over a suburban street was absolutely thrilling. I bounced up & down in my seat exclaiming "Wow! wow!" repeatedly. It was a happy moment in my personal bird watching history.
   I've since found out that there is a nesting site a few miles away, not far from the shores of Lake Erie. It's kept a bit of a secret, because bald eagles are an endangered species. I'm happy that the birds are living close to Cleveland, maybe I'll see one again in the future. But if I don't, it was still a lovely memory to see one flying past on a sunny autumn day.


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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Remembrance Day

                                 

 

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

                      -Lt. Col. John McCrae (1918)


Friday, October 30, 2009

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

new fall drawing

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   Finished this drawing a couple weeks ago & it's already sold! I posted it on one of my animal email lists & a few minutes later a lady from Maryland said she wanted to buy it. 4 other people also said they were interested in it! Too bad I can't make prints, I'm afraid the drawing would smudge if I tried xeroxing it. But I am thinking of a way you make note cards or post cards of it.    The drawing is pencil, pen & ink and acrylic wash on the leaves. It's 11"x14" on Bristol board, a thick paper that works for any medium. I'll be matting & framing it before sending it to the customer.    If only more of my paintings had such a response. *sigh*



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