Tag Archives: animals

winter sports in your own backyard

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Pam Bliss

Hum the theme loudly as you look at these images– the Winter Olympics have begun!

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superb owl weekend

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Pam Bliss

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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replacement possums

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Pam Bliss

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 →

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pen week part one: meatball mammoth and other stub pen drawings

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Pam Bliss

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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antelopia– squares, and a quiz

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Pam Bliss

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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the possum lady of old kekionga

Posted on December 25, 2017 by Pam Bliss

(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 →

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an adorable cretaceous pet

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Pam Bliss

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

Posted on September 8, 2017 by Pam Bliss

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 →

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animal week: concluding animal roundup

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Pam Bliss

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

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Pam Bliss

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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