Sibley at Lewis & Clark Headquarters

 

Travelers' Rest Raptors and Art

Our favorite State Park, just down the road in Lolo and Art Day. Sponsored by Open AIR non-profit, Bev Glueckert and I had the whole afternoon with 20 artists. This time everyone participated in drawing, painting and making monoprints with Bev on her printing press. Sibley, Simon and Little Billie were the true stars! That's Simon posing in the background, participants inking plates.

Today and Just Eight

 

Love These Sandpipers

 

Fom Class 1978

 

What a Find

I just came across this rolled up mass of ancient newsprint tied with a leather boot lace. Lo and behold, a hundred nudes I sketched in Drawing Class at the University of Montana, 1978. Here are a few in a quick snapshot, and about 40 will be used to start fires in the wood stove this fall. More on the way, and that was a FUN class I remember, some of the guy students blushing at times.

Flowers

We had an unusual delivery first thing Sunday morning; eight roosters, nice donation and beautiful flowers that now grace the kitchen and family room windows. David and Amelia Amish of Hamilton made these same gifts about ten years ago, and chickens are a major part of the raptor diet around here. And the flowers are gladiolus, blooming like crazy.

Our Favorite Family

     Just now and a week and a half later - still nine poults!

Calendars!

Thanks to our pals, Minuteman Press in Missoula, Raptors of the Rockies 2025 Calendars! You may pick them up at Rockin Rudy's or let us know - $25 with postage. Or have a pile in my car! Photos from here in the neighborhood and one from Washington, a Snowy Owl.

Next!

Starting a new etching today, a Spotted Sandpiper, not this bird but some composite. Water, rocks, reflection, experiment. Always love seeing these guys at the river, and some days all shorebird photos and no eagles (or Ospreys.)

Brand New Etching

This was my 3rd version as I destroyed the first one applying the sandpaper texture with a hammer instead of the ole rubber mallet, the next one cropped, and this one.  I tried a new Metallic Gold printing ink and this thing glows, always an experiment. Gouache paint and 9 x 12 inches. 

Another Smokey Sunrise

 

Sunrise

 This looked really cool a minute before with the sun just behind the contrail, and ran to get my camera. Could be an asteroid or comet!

Old 2011 Blog

One of the idiots out there. My favorite is someone called the MT Fish, Wildlife and Parks front desk to ask that they move the "Game Crossing" warning sign on her street. "I am just tired of all these deer in my yard. Move it somewhere else." 

Turkey Family

 A few fewer a week later...

September First Sunset In the Smoke

 

Flowers