FOTD – May 12 – Mother’s day a few days late Owen had planned this for Mother’s Day but having just bought us a television, he was out of money. So — he got his paycheck and today was a… Read More ›
Birds
SKETCHBOOK 58 – MINI-ORCHIDS AND A HOUSE FINCH
I keep getting into a time crunch. I write and there’s no time to draw. I draw, but there’s no time to write. No matter how hard I try, the number of hours in a day never gets any bigger…. Read More ›
OUR GARDEN’S NEW LOOK
It used to be when I looked out my back door, mostly I saw crabgrass. In early spring, for a while, we have dandelions and violets, but mostly it was crabgrass all summer and snow all winter — with leaves… Read More ›
THE HUNGRY CREATURES
We had been trying to figure out which birds were eating all the food we were putting out, but this morning I finally realized the food is being consumed by a lot of birds of every kind you will find… Read More ›
HOUSE FINCHES AND A WOODPECKER
In the past month, the number of birds we are supporting has tripled. It might be even more than that. There are an incredible number of birds and I have had to make decisions about how much food I can… Read More ›
LAST PHOTO – MARCH 2022
Last on the Card – March 2022 Even though I worked through many of the Bluebird pictures, I saved and marked the last one just for you. It doesn’t look a whole lot different than the one I processed except for… Read More ›
TINY GOLDFINCHES
They are babies. You can tell because when you look at the photographs closely, you can actually see the baby feathers poking up on their heads and usually on their breasts, too. They grow from babyhood to adult in just… Read More ›
PORTRAIT OF THE (SKETCH) ARTIST By GARRY ARMSTRONG
My wife, Marilyn, has always been a skilled wordsmith. In fact, Marilyn has been my editorial ‘Max Perkins,’ polishing up all the things I’ve written in recent years. She knows my voice and her edits make my work much better…. Read More ›
FLASHBACK FRIDAY ON SATURDAY – FEATHERED, FURRY, FRUSTRATING
Fandango’s Flashback Friday — February 18th When we got up this morning, there was a red squirrel settled in the seed box, I took some pictures. We had an errand to run down in Dartmouth and were worried about getting there…. Read More ›
BIRD FEEDER WATCH – DAY TWO
Yesterday was day 1 of Cornell’s Bird Feeder Watch. I think it runs four days. I didn’t watch yesterday. I had too much other stuff going on, but this morning, I did my first 1-hour watch and this is what… Read More ›
LAST TWO ON THE CARDS
Last on the Card – January 2022 I think we — as a family — took more pictures during the past three or four days than we took the entire rest of the month. The huge blizzard that hit us geared… Read More ›
FEBRURARY SQUARES – ODD BIRDS
The Square Odds I’m not sure if anything I’ve got is odd. I’m not sure that everything I’ve got isn’t odd. Given the past couple of years, I’m not sure that anything is odd unless everything is odd or weird… Read More ›
Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth 