CREATIVE ARTS WEEKEND - SHOW YOUR STUFF
CREATIVE ARTS WEEKEND - SHOW YOUR STUFF
This is the time and place to get away from all that distraction and post something you have photographed, painted, sculpted, built or just created, cause we'd all like to see something that will pull us away from the news we're having to watch every day. Votes up and comments are welcome as well.
RED BOX RULES: AN IMPORTANT REMINDER
From time-to-time, I should remind all members of NT, etc., that when posting photos, artwork, etc., it's important, when posting, that you own, and/or legally represent the licensing, copyright, etc., of what you post, and TO PROTECT YOUR WORK, TO INCLUDE YOUR COPYRIGHT SYMBOL/INFORMATION; and/or, WHEN POSTING COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY BELONGING TO PARTIES OTHER THAN YOURSELF, TO …
• BE SURE YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO POST, TRANSMIT, etc, SUCH PROPERTY, and,
• IF/WHEN SUCH PERMISSION HAS BEEN GRANTED, TO PROPERLY AND CLEARLY ATTRIBUTE THE COPYRIGHTS TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNER(S).
VERY IMPORTANT … IN THE FUTURE, I WILL REMEMBER TO POST THIS CAVEAT REGULARLY.
Thanks, A. MAC
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I took down the office paludarium, brought it home and took it apart for a rebuild. In it's place I setup this10 gallon with ember tetras. I had everything except the fish so that was my only cost.
Good job.
Cool. I really like the rocks and deadwood.
Some scenes from the deck. The bottom one is cropped from shot of a hibiscus from 30 feet away through a screen.
Only once in my life did I see major wildlife near my home. When I was 18 we moved into a home that I designed and was built on the edge of a small forest, and one day I came home some years later to see a deer eating leaves from a euononymous vine growing up the side of our house.
You're lucky to get to live near such wildlife, even bird dive-bombers.
I do love it here. Believe it or not that is a hummingbird. They visit all day long. A bear tore one of our screens on the screened in porch. We just sewed it up because it looks cool - you can see where the claws went through. I found a snake skin in the yard today that was a little too big for my liking. Then there’s the giant woodpecker that did this:
Your photos must be huge. That top one took almost 5 minutes to fully load. I'm surprised that the hummingbird was so colourless - I've used a feeder as well in the past and my memory makes me think they were all pretty colourful, although I do know that with birds it's the male that is colourful, the female not so much.
Back to the deer photo - you captured a moment when both the doe and the fawn were obtaining liquid refreshment. LOL
Weird. I do everything on my phone and there’s never any delay loading images. I post them in the “original” size option to get all the detail. Have you tried using NT on an iPad or iPhone?
I don't have an iPad, and my very cheap old phone is not an iPhone - has no internet ability. Anyway the problem only happened the first time I opened your comment - now it loads immediately.
Wow. That woodpecker was on a mission. It might have been going after ash borers. One of my trees got a similar treatment over the winter, but not as bad as yours.
Great shots.
I was thnking it must have been a whole family of woodpeckers preparing homes for themselves, but then what do I know about woodpeckers?
I'm pretty sure they can excavate cavities for nesting if they have to, but I think they just do it in one spot, not all over like that, and not so close to the ground. I'll bet that one was going after boring insects.
It is a pileated woodpecker
He fed off our bird feeders over the winter, like an acrobat. The other birds are less than half his size.
Several of those live right around me. I hear and see them all the time, but I don't think I've ever seen one at my feeders. I didn't think they were seed eaters. That's pretty cool. As big as they are, they'd have to be acrobats to do that.
Already working on the new paludarium setup.
Nice to see that you intend its inhabitants to be Buddhists.
A few minutes ago, I drove through the park behind my house a got this
picture of a young deer. There were several but were spread out.
There appear to be many examples of people in America living near and sharing the land with wildlife.
I really like seeing the deer in the park.
I waited until it was the end of the weekend in California to close this article for a reason. but it has turned out to be a disappointment, more to A.Mac than to myself, because, after all, I am only A.Mac's surrogate for these articles. Maybe next weekend there will be an explanation. Thanks to all who posted, keeping the article alive and up front.