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Tag Archives: animals
winter sports in your own backyard
Hum the theme loudly as you look at these images– the Winter Olympics have begun!
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Tagged animals, dogs, history and culture, photography
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superb owl weekend
I celebrated the weekend of the Superb Owl by drawing some owls as my drawings of the day. Eastern Screech Owls, specifically, mostly because I still have the vague idea that there is going to be an owl character in … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, drawing, drawing of the day, food and cooking
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replacement possums
Finishing the “finished” art has been delayed because it turns out I had to replace two of the possums. This is a thing that happens. Sometimes you just have to replace your possums. Here are the replacement possums, ready to … Continue reading
pen week part one: meatball mammoth and other stub pen drawings
The drawing of the day project is well into its tenth year, so let’s celebrate with a Pen Week, a week of drawings from the most recent drawing of the day sketchbook that feature automatic drawings, with no pencil underdrawing, … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, drawing, drawing of the day, drawing tools, sketchbook world
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antelopia– squares, and a quiz
A tour of the photo archives takes us once again through the fringes of Antelopia, my ongoing project where I photograph every antelope I can find. Due to the fact that Northwest Indiana is not prime antelope habitat (not recently, … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, fun and games, photography, words
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the possum lady of old kekionga
(Our now traditional post for Christmas night, an invented-on-the-spot bit of Kekionga folklore, originally posted in 2013.) One Christmas night we got home late from spending the holiday out of town. Our dog sitter left the Japanese lantern on beside … Continue reading
an adorable cretaceous pet
Back before I got my first corgi, my inner life was full of imaginary pets. Not just dogs, but tame foxes, wolves, crows, hedgehogs, armadillos and giant fruit bats. And of course, since imagination is cheap, I also kept dragons, … Continue reading
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mushawasing page 2
What does happen when you fall asleep in the Woods? Do you dream… or don’t you? For those not familiar with Kekionga’s distinctive wildlife, the creature with its feet in the Creek is a young female Saiga petrovskii, the woodland saiga. … Continue reading
animal week: concluding animal roundup
Round ’em up: all the cool miscellaneous animals that just happened to be especially photogenic the other weekend. Nothing serious concerning the philosophy of animal characters in narrative here, just some pictures I took at the zoo. Here are two … Continue reading
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animal week: a marvelous mandrill
Yes, the animals at the zoo were amazing enough that their week has expanded beyond the dictionary definition of the word. And the animal that I found most amazing to photograph was this young mandrill. He was indoors in … Continue reading
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