tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740069597669986292024-03-13T02:12:35.388-04:00Kat Walk DesignsMy Bog for documenting my Nature Photographs and Art AdventuresKathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.comBlogger523125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-91259552720581602422018-06-23T11:59:00.000-04:002018-06-23T11:59:53.250-04:00Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Colored Pencil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Above is the finished version of my latest colored pencil drawing in my 6 x 6 inch series, an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. The drawing is from a reference photo I made several years ago. The background was abstracted and modified from the original reference. Actually I think that if I had done this drawing more recently it would have been a bit more simplified but it had already been inked when I started adding color recently.<br />
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Swallowtails are the oldest species of butterfly, they also tend to be the largest and the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail is often the largest in the group. So this was a large butterfly. <br />
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I have only one in-process image for this work. Above is a scan where all of the first layer of color was applied and I had started adding the final layers of the background green. I use Faber Castel Polychromos for the top layers while the base layer are done with Derwent wax pencils. The base layer is not much more than a light layer of a light color. Keeping it light allows me more latitude with the top layers.<br />
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The Butterfly is the last of the drawings I had inked a couple of years ago when I got distracted and put the project aside and focused on photographs. I am now working on a couple of different subjects/images for the next drawings in the series. <br />
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These next three drawings are something a bit different for me. for some reason I was never interested in doing colored pencil portraits. But earlier this June I purchased a set of Prismacolor Premiere pencils, they are a creamy wax based pencil and I thought why not test drive them with some portraits. So far I have finished 3 drawings. All reference images are from the Wetcanvas photo library. As a member of the site I am free to use them.<br />
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There are some inaccuracies in the drawings, it has been over a year since I did a lot of serious drawing so my skills are rusty, but I will say that I am relatively pleased with the results. For the most part everyone at least looks human.<br />
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I am starting all of these drawings with a light pencil sketch to locate eyes, shape of head, end of nose and mouth. Next I use a kneaded eraser to remove/lighten the pencil lines until they are barely visible. Once the graphite lines are mostly gone I start with the colored pencils working first with light colors and then adding shading and darker tones. <br />
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I started with the woman above. The light brown skin was fun to do. <br />
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The boy above was my second portrait attempt. Not sure how I like this one. His darker skin tones were a challenge and I am not sure I used the right colors for it. I used pinks and reds though I wonder if some orange and violets wouldn't have been better. Ah well will have to work on that. Also teeth can be very tricky, The ear leaves a lot to be desired but I was getting tired of working on this so left it generalized rather than detailed.<br />
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I do have to say t hat the hair was fun, I used, I think, at least 3 different colored pencils on it, starting with a light warm grey, adding some dark brown and also black. <br />
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This little boy is the last one I have finished, and I have to say this is the one that I am happiest with. I think I got the skin tones mostly right, and the shape of the head and features. I probably should have shaded the right side of his face a bit more, but I didn't want to push it too dark, which is an easy mistake to make with any drawing (the mistake is staying too light) After doing the darker skinned boy it was a challenge to find the right colors for this very light skinned child. But at least he looks like a child, so easy to get children's faces wrong. <br />
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Now the challenge is going to be finding more subjects. I am beginning to understand why colored pencil artists like to do portraits, often on commission. It can be a challenge to find copyright free images to draw. I don't usually photograph people so I don't have many personal reference photos to use. <br />
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All of these portraits were done in my small Strathmore sketchbook 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Not the best paper for colored pencil work but not the worst either.<br />
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Now for a couple of photographs.<br />
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Gladiolas, not the most common garden flower now a days, the stalks are a bit fragile, but they do have beautiful flowers. Photographed in a neighborhood garden, I saw only the one plant in bloom, but aren't they beautiful flowers. <br />
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I am not seeing a lot of butterflies this year, well lots of cabbage whites, but not being able to drive limits my viewing opportunities. I believe the above is a European Skipper, not native but I am happy to photograph any butterfly this year. Not sure what the flower it is feeding on is, I think some kind of escaped garden flower.<br />
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That is it for today. I need to go work on my drawings for my series. In the meantime comments are welcome. <br />
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The grey squirrel is done. Yeah, it took what seemed like forever to finish. Of course it didn't take that long, but I think this squirrel is the drawing I have spent the most time on in this series. The ducklings also took a long time, but the issue with them was the feathers and then the rocks. Again this one was started years ago and then put aside. I got a bit nervous about my abilities to render it so ended up putting it away while I worked on others. Finally I pushed myself to just get back to it and get it done.<br />
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It is the same size as the others, 6 x 6 inches on Stonehenge paper. I think the tree trunk took the most time to finish and I admit that it gave me the most anxiety. I worried that it wouldn't look like a tree trunk when done. Now that it is done I am relatively pleased with how this came out.<br />
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Again not photo realistic, but then I wasn't aiming for that. I did simplify the background behind the squirrel, in the photo there were more tree branches. I didn't want to draw attention away from the squirrel so left them out. <br />
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It was a cold cloudless February day when I made this photo in Boston, MA. There was a couple of feet of snow on the ground so some of the light is reflected. The squirrel was looking for a handout, which I wasn't able to give as I had no food with me but it was a fairly close encounter. <br />
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The Wood Lily above is one of my next projects. For this one I had an almost finished drawing that needed to be transferred to the correct paper, and outlined in ink. I have all of the first layers of color applied. In fact the background is almost done. Again I used a red wax based pencil (Derwent) covered with a green wax based pencil and then a final layer of a Polychromos dark green. There are some areas that need a touch up and a bit more work but the background is mostly finished.<br />
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<a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/lilium/philadelphicum/" target="_blank">Wood Lilies</a> are a native New England wildflower, found in open meadows, it is a lovely reddish colored flower. Each plant usually has a single bloom. I photographed this one in the Power Line cut at Ames Nowell State Park in a nearby town. <br />
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I have just about run out of prepped drawings for the next in the series. I want to do at least 13/14 drawings so I can put a calendar together.<br />
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I love birds, though I admit to being a bit leery about using one of them for these drawings, color patterns on feathers can be very complex. Flowers are usually so much easier. Still I want a variety of subjects so I expect that I will use the above bird as one of my drawings.<br />
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The bird is a Cat Bird. They are mostly grey so I won't have much of an issue with color patterns, except for the black cap that is. It is still just in the pencil stage, I need to check it for correctness but I think it is about good to go. <br />
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I am also trying to get back to some sketching with pen (no pencil) I have been away from it for so long that I am fairly sure my efforts are going to be pretty bad. But they won't get better unless I bite the bullet and just do it. The flowers above are Spiderwort an early June garden flower that has escaped to the woods. Drawn in a sketchbook with just pen. Not terrible, but not very good either. I will keep at it. <br />
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Early June is also the time when the peonies are in bloom. These two photos were made in my local neighborhood and show the varieties of peony's that can now be found in the garden. When I was young we had Peony's in our yard, all white ones that had a large multi petal bloom. I remember that at the time there was also a deep red color, but I don't recall pink of the above flowers or the brighter red in the flower below.<br />
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I love the smell of Peonies, but I don't love the ants that love the sweet sap the plant produces and seem to accompany all flowers. A problem if you wanted to bring some of the flowers inside.<br />
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Hope you enjoy these two photos. That is it for today. I need to motivate myself and get another of the colored pencil drawings finished. Per usual comments are welcome. . <br />
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I have finished a couple more pieces of my Colored Pencil project these past few days. I will post one of them today and the 2nd in my next update. Above are lilies with some other pink garden flower. This is from a reference photograph I made a couple of years ago and fell in love with because of the colors. I simplified the background a great deal so as to keep the final drawing not too busy.<br />
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I am rather pleased with how this one came out. Not photo realistic, but that is OK with me, that wasn't what I was going for with this one. Drawn on Stonehenge paper, size is 6 x 6 inches for the finished drawing. <br />
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The above image is a photograph not a scan, I did a scan but wasn't happy with the resulting quality of the image, I think the colors are more accurate with the photo <br />
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I have two more in-process scans of the Day Lilies so you can see a bit how I work. Above is an in-process scan of my working on the dark green background for the lilies. First I lay down a light covering of a red wax based pencil, then I go over the red with a green wax based pencil (Derwent Studio). The brighter green to the right side is the final layer of a Dark Green Polychromos color. All final layers are Faber Castell Polychromos pencils for this work. The red background will give me a darker green than I would get if I just used green pencils. <br />
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Prior to starting with any of the colored pencils I do an ink outline drawing of the final image, this gives me guidelines for where the colors go. Sort of like an adult coloring book, but the drawings are my work based on personal reference photographs. <br />
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The above scan shows the drawing with the final layer of dark green Polychromos background and all other sections with their under layer of Derwent's wax pencils. I choose light colors for the flowers/leaves so that I can leave light areas when I do the final layers. Color pencil like watercolor doesn't really allow light colors to show up if they are applied over dark, so light areas have to be left light from the beginning. <br />
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I have been so busy with the colored pencil drawings that I am not getting much done watercolor wise. The above painting of some fall leaves was actually started a couple years ago and just finished this week. I was experimenting with a substance that covers the paper and protects it from the paint leaving white areas. Once the substance dries (it is a rubber like liquid) the background is painted, when the paint dries the resist is removed leaving the white paper ready for painting. Hmm well that is the theory, I found that there seemed to be a bit of a residue on the paper so some areas didn't like taking my paint.<br />
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Anyway while I am not unhappy with this painting, I am not very happy with the process, so I don't think I will be incorporating that technique into much of my watercolor art. <br />
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On a trip into Boston last week I walk through the Fenway past the World War II Memorial seen in the above photograph. I know there are also markers for the Korea War and other later wars in this area. Since Memorial day was Monday this week I thought it would be an appropriate image. I made the photograph more because the the blooming Azaleas but that is just an aside. <br />
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I also visited the Fenway Rose Garden, it is too early for much to be in boom but I did find this yellow/pink rose on one of the bushes. Have to go back a bit later in June when most of the bushes should be blooming. My Father loved roses, and since a rose is usually the flower for June (my birth month) I am also very fond of them.<br />
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That is it for today. Per usual comments are welcome. <br />
<br />Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-55541020916327855942018-05-21T14:03:00.000-04:002018-05-21T14:03:46.172-04:00Birds and flowers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Spring is advancing, we are getting some warm days and some cool wet days along with some that are just cloudy. Wet and/or cloudy days are not good for photography. I have managed to do a couple more watercolor paintings. Again I am drawing my main subject first with pencil then inking an outline that I then paint with watercolor. My drawing skills are a bit rusty and since I want to concentrate on controlling the paint/color and not shapes I am finding this the easiest way to work.<br />
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So the above tulip was drawn and then outlined prior to my adding paint. That said I am relatively pleased with how it came out. I am trying very hard to not overwork the paint, but it isn't always easy to just stop. <br />
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After the tulip I thought I would try a more challenging subject. So I drew an outline of a robin and then attempted to paint it. Hmm, well the shape of the bird isn't quite right (it is a bit too fat in the belly). and it was a challenge to leave the white areas (unpainted paper) but I think I got the colors almost right Anyway it looks like a robin so I am semi happy and plan on trying more birds in the future.<br />
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The background above is only sketched in with paint. The robin was on the ground in the reference photo and I didn't want to try and paint tan dried grasses. Not a masterpiece but a learning experience that I am not unhappy with. <br />
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It is not all watercolor work here. I have pulled out my colored pencils and gotten to work on pieces that I had started a cople of years ago and ended up putting aside for no particular reason other than I had gotten tired of working with colored pencil .<br />
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I just finished the one above, Bindweed and Birdfoot Trefoil flowers with a bit of fern. The scan isn't the best color wise but it is a fairly close approximation.<br />
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I am currently working on another flower drawing (day lilies) but have also been trying to select photos for the additional drawings, I want to do 13, enough to create a calendar. So far I have selected some additional flowers and some animals. Which reminds me that I really need to finish the squirrel. Just have to say that trees are hard to draw, which is what is holding that one up. <br />
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As a closure here are a couple of Spring photos. Above is a close up of some Red Bud flowers that I made earlier this month. Love the pink. <br />
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The building above is my Public Library with a blooming Dogwood tree. The library actually has 2 Dogwoods in the front, but the 2nd (which is pink) is hidden by the maple tree on the right.<br />
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That is it for today, per usual comments are welcome. <br />
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Since I am not driving all over the state in search of early butterflies I have been trying to get back to my art work. My main focus is improving my watercolor skills, with mixed results. For subjects I am going through my photo archive and selecting photos that I think will be relatively easy to paint, mostly flowers at this point.<br />
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Above is a columbine, I selected a photo of an individual flower and tried to paint it without any preliminary pencil or pen work. I am relatively pleased with how it came out. Native columbines are such a pretty late spring flower and it was fun to try and paint the rather complex shapes. <br />
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My next attempt was the above image of 3 cosmos flowers. I have painted this subject before with as I recall not much more success, for some reason these are tricky flowers to paint.<br />
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Perhaps it is the color of the flowers, pink. There is no such thing as pink watercolor paint, there are various shades of red but no pink. So to get pink you have to add water, lots of water, which makes a wet paint that I find tricky to control. I am finding it hard to get the brush loaded just right. Paper towels are necessary, at least for me so that I can remove some of the moisture from the brush prior to painting. Still I think this attempt is better than my previous attempt, which isn't saying much. After a lot more paintings maybe I will try again. <br />
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I tried something a bit different with these daffodils. I drew the image first with pencil, then inked the outline lines and then added color. I started with a light yellow wash, removed some of the paint in some areas, then allowed the paper to dry. The next session I added some darker yellow and orange shading. Allowed that to dry and then added the shadows and the background. I am fairly happy with how this one came out. At least they look like daffodils. Again the reference was one of my personal photographs.<br />
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For all my paintings I am using a half sheet of Fabriano Studio Watercolor paper, the cold press, 140 lbs 9 x 12 inch sheets. It contains 25% cotton so isn't as expensive as 100% cotton paper but stands up better to water etc. than a 100% wood pulp paper or a lighter weight paper. <br />
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These next two photos are both of "Violets", though the ones above are wild (and I think native) while the ones in the photo below are house plants that come from another continent. I don't think they are actually related but I may be wrong.<br />
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Anyway I usually have at least one <a href="https://www.botanix.com/en-ca/botanix-specialists-blog/african-violets" target="_blank">African Violet</a> plant
that I keep in my bedroom (the windows face North which my African
Violets seem to love). Right at the moment one of the plants is in bloom so I
thought I would share a photo of them This plant flowers a kind of salmon pink, not my favorite color, I prefer a dark purple but I tend to purchase plants that are on the sale table so they usually don't have flowers when I buy them. <br />
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Earlier this week I took a trip into Boston, got off at Park and walked across the common and through the Garden. The flowering trees were putting on a show and the swan boats were out and about on the pond. Above is a photo of a swan boat at the boarding shed. It was a beautiful day, I ended up at the Library for lunch and then headed out to the smaller Blicks store for some spare colored pencils. Next update will have a colored pencil drawing. Something old that I have finally finished.<br />
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In the meantime that is it for today, comments are always welcome. <br />
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It is the First of May, hope you have a happy May Day. I almost can't believe how long it has been since I last did a blog update. But to be honest I haven't been doing much to blog about. Playing games on my tablet, reading or listening to books, food shopping, those have been my main activities, and there isn't much in the way of interesting blog content in those activities. Hmm book reviews maybe but that has never been my thing, so I will spare my readers.<br />
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That said in the past few weeks I have pulled out my brushes and the watercolor paints and paper to do some playing around. First I painted some imaginary flowers, then I cut the resulting painting into 2 inch strips and then using an ink pen I added some top doodles. The results are in the top image, a couple of almost done bookmarks. I plan on coating them with Acrylic Medium and then calling them done. I have plans to do some more watercolor painting. I am not very good, but hopefully well get better. <br />
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These next two photos show what else I have been doing since Christmas, knitting socks. So far I have 3 pair finished, and a couple more pairs where the first sock is about half way done (I am doing the heel)<br />
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I am working with mostly wool yarns that has some nylon incorporated, the grey socks above have some Alpaca, which means a soft yarn with a lovely hand. I am knitting on double pointed needles, size 2 for the grey socks, and size one for the multi colored socks below, they yarn is dyed with gradations of color, I just knit. The socks don't have the same color gradations, but then the yarn didn't seem to have repeat gradations. I wasn't sure I would have enough for the 2nd sock so I didn't even really try to look for a repeat. Still I don't care, I love the colors in this yarn and found the gradations fun to work with. <br />
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For those who haven't tried it, sock knitting is fun and sort of
addictive. Esp. if you can find a pattern that is well written and have
had some experience knitting. There are various on-line sites that offer free patterns, though I found the Paton's Next Steps Four, Socks and Slippers booklet excellent for the beginning sock pattern (grey socks). I also recommend the <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/" target="_blank">Ravelery</a> web site for all things knit, they have free patters and a large community of knitters. You need to join to get the patterns but the site won't bombard you with e-mails. <br />
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Our weather, here in Eastern MA was fairly warm in February (for that time of year) but March was snowy and cold so I wasn't doing many trips into Boston. Above is photo I did make on of my late March Boston visits. This is a photo of Boston City Hall from the Quincy Market area, the statue is one of Boston's past mayors, Kevin White, I think but I need to check <br />
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The above photo was made from Boston Garden looking toward Beacon Street. The pink azalea was inside the garden, and the white tree was in front of one of the buildings on Beacon. The photo was made about a week ago, in late April. <br />
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I made the above photo of a violet in bloom this past weekend here in Brockton. There are also various bushes in bloom and some of the trees in my neighborhood are starting to leaf out. I can say that Spring is finally arriving here in Southeastern MA.<br />
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Not sure when I will be updating the blog again. I am not currently driving so my access to woods has been severely limited. This means I won't be visiting my favorite sites for spring wild flowers this year. Lack of mobility is also going to limit the number and kinds of butterflies I can photograph. Maybe I can get back to doing more art which I can post, only time will tell, and I am sure there will be more socks.. In the meantime comments are welcome. Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-62059417299455451952018-01-14T18:33:00.000-05:002018-01-15T08:43:11.752-05:00Happy New Year 2018 - Chicago Street Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I want to wish all my readers a Happy 2018, may you have good health, good luck and good times this coming year.<br />
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Per usual I spent Christmas and New Year's at my sisters in Chicago. For the first part of my visit the weather wasn't too bad so on a couple of days (one cloudy) I was able to get out and about with the camera. Then a cold front came in and it was too cold to spend much time outside and with the wind chill factor dangerous to exposed skin (temps were below 10 degrees F on a couple of days) so my photography trips were called off, it was just too darn cold.<br />
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Anyway Chicago has a lot of hmm, lets call it street art. These first two photos are buildings that have been painted to call attention to themselves. Both of these are restaurants, the top one a barbecue place and the one below I think was a Mexican Restaurant. For the barbecue place they just painted the building over the entrance. In the one below they painted the entire rear of the adjoining building, fake windows, fake arch, fake courtyard and even fake stairs. I am sure that in the summer there are tables in this area and it must be a pleasant place to sit and eat. The fountain is real. <br />
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Please don't ask me where these restaurants are, I have no
clue other than on the North side of downtown Chicago and toward the
lake, Lincoln Park area (I think) I do all my wanderings starting on
foot from my sisters and usually walk toward the lake (east) and usually south (toward downtown) but I don't
really bother with street names or addresses. If I end up over by the
lake and Lincoln Park I know which buses will get me back to her house otherwise I am happy to just wander. <br />
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But Chicago also likes to put up sculptures and other types of art works on street corners and in small parks.<br />
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The colorful bends above are to mark one of the areas that make up the City of Chicago, The sign says Lakeview East, different areas have different signs. <br />
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Above is one of the Corner Sculptures I found, I don't recall what the marker said about it. It just sits out on a street corner, I would think that they might be worried that someone would try to take it, but then again maybe not. <br />
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Near a Children's Hospital I found a small park, there was a sculpture of children playing a circle game in the center of the park, and this one on the corner, not sure what it is supposed to be. <br />
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As a final photograph, Chicago has a <a href="http://www.naturemuseum.org/" target="_blank">Nature Museum</a> located a bit north of the Lincoln Park Zoo. It is near a pond and also fairly close to the Lake (Lake Michigan) Instead of a lawn with mowed grass they have landscaped much of the area around the building as native prairie: using native shrubs and plants. The photo above is of some flower heads (seed heads) left from last summer. I don't know what the flower is/was but thought the seed heads interesting.<br />
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I have visited the Museum in the past, they have a butterfly room with live mostly tropical butterflies, it was fun to try and photograph them, they also have exhibits showcasing native animals and their habitat. A good place to visit with young children, when my sister and I visited food was in short supply so I suggest a packed lunch if you are in the area and want to visit.<br />
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That is it for today, not sure when my next update will be or what it will be about. I am finding that I don't have a lot of motivation to get out the camera when it is freezing cold or the ground is snow covered. Ah well, per usual comments are welcome. <br />
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I have been working on next years (2018) calendars. Every year I try to select the best photographs I have made over the past year and create calendars for family and/or friends. This year there are 3 different calendars.: one with bird photographs, another with butterfly photos, and the 3rd with, this year anyway "Landscape" photos. Not that all of the photos in the Landscape Calendar are really of landscapes. Feeling that just landscape photos would get boring (the area I make my photographs in is fairly limited) I included some photos that are more close up photos of nature, not long distant shots so I have fudged a bit.<br />
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The bird and butterfly calendars are in a way a bit easier to pull together, I just pull out my best photographs and select from there. Since I need 14 photographs for each calendar I usually don't end up with a lot of extra. Esp. as I don't want to repeat species in each year. But with the landscape calendar there are some months that are harder to make the final selection for. So this blog post includes my "rejected" calendar photos. They didn't make the final cut, but were selected as possibles.<br />
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The above photo was a possible March. For the Landscape calendar, photos are made in the month they represent. This one was made in March at Ponkapoag Golf Course, showing the Sugar Maples that line the road leading back to the Bluehills Reservation area around the pond. <br />
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The above photo was made in Ames Nowell State Park, Abington, MA in April. Powered boats are not allowed on lakes in the state parks, but some visitors bring inflatable kayaks or canoes such as seen here. <br />
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This photo was made in my local city park in August, and shows this year's swan family, parents and cygnets swimming away from me. I used another photo of the swans in the calendar, one I liked better, and didn't want to repeat the image, so this one got cut. <br />
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The photograph above was made at the Governor Ames Estate, Easton, MA in July. This is what I mean when I say that not all of the photos are "Landscapes". Still nature, but not a long distance shot. I really like this photo of water lilies, but it just didn't fit in for that month. <br />
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This photo was made at Daniel Webster, MA Audubon site in Marshfield, MA in June. It shows the fields where the bobolinks make their nests. The fields are mowed toward the end of every summer so that the trees don't take over, but it is done after the young birds have fledged so are out of the fields. I just liked the range of values and colors in this photo, but it just didn't fit so got eliminated.<br />
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Hope you enjoyed this peak behind the curtain so to speak and like viewing my "rejected" photos. <br />
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Lately I have been trying to get back to some of my other loves (drawing and sewing) so above are two bookmarks that I have been working on. I painted a made up landscape on some watercolor paper, then cut the paper into strips and added ink work over the painting. There are a couple of more that I need to finish, but these two are the ones I have done so far. I apply acrylic medium to the fronts and backs which not only makes them waterproof but pretty durable.<br />
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That is it for today. Per usual comments are welcome <br />
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<br />Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-27019146545780825692017-10-07T13:27:00.000-04:002017-10-07T13:27:16.160-04:00Fall Berries<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Every plant that flowers produces seeds, some plants encase the seeds in pulp and an outer cover to temp birds, insects or other animals to carry them away and eat them. Today's blog showcases photos I have made in recent weeks of various berries.<br />
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I don't usually see these berries ripe. I think the birds and chipmunks get them as soon as they are ripe, or it could be that I just wasn't paying enough attention. But the above photo made at the Governor Ames Estate in Easton, MA., Sept. 4, of a single remaining berry on a <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/maianthemum/canadense/" target="_blank">Canada Mayflower</a> plant is an exception. Canada Mayflower is a common native plant of New England woods blooming with white flowers in the spring (usually May). <br />
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Roses start blooming in early summer (mid June) and will usually bloom through early July. The fruits of the rose flower are called <a href="https://www.thespruce.com/what-are-rose-hips-and-what-do-they-do-1403046" target="_blank">Rose Hips</a>. We have several native rose species here in MA. and to be honest I am not sure which one is represented in the above photo, made at Daniel Webster MA Audubon, Marshfield, MA. on Sept. 24, 2017. A source of food for birds they are also can be used by humans. <br />
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Another native plant of the forest floor is <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/gaultheria/procumbens/" target="_blank">Wintergreen</a>. The red berry above is the fruit of this plant that prefers acidic soils, and is the original source of the flavoring Wintergreen. Native Americans used this berry for many purposes including making a tea. I photographed these plants at Ames Nowell State Park, Abington, MA. on Sept. 29, 2017. <br />
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Here is another native plant of the forest floor. You have to be paying attention to notice this small berry growing among the low growing leaves, though the red color does attract attention. This is <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/mitchella/repens/" target="_blank">Partridge Berry</a> and is unusual because the single fruit is formed from the two flowers that bloomed in early summer. I found these plants in my local city park, (Brockton, MA) though it is a common plant in this area. Photographed Sept. 28, 2017. <br />
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The above berries are of the <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/solanum/dulcamara/" target="_blank">Bittersweet Nightshade</a>, also called Climbing Nightshade. This non-native plant can be found in waste places and often in your own yard where soil has been disturbed and weeds allowed to grow. I photographed this plant at the Golf Course at Ponkapoag Pond, Canton, MA., Oct. 3, 2017. They are pretty berries but toxic to humans so should not be eaten. <br />
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The red berries above are an excellent winter food source for birds. They are hard so birds seem to prefer them after they have softened due to time and frosts. These are the berries of the Winterberry bush. There are several species that are called winterberry that have bright red berries, I believe this is <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/ilex/laevigata/" target="_blank">Smooth Winterberry</a> as I photographed it growing at the edge of Ponkapoag Pond, Canton, MA., Oct. 3, 2017. A native bush that is a good addition to a yard where the owner wants to have bird friendly plantings. The small white flowers aren't showy but they do attract native pollinators and bloom early summer. <br />
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These are the berries of the <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/phytolacca/americana/" target="_blank">Pokeweed</a> plant. The berries are poisonous to humans but young leaves can be eaten after appropriate processing. That said they are a food source for birds. The plants are large and bushy and can often be seen along roadsides. I photographed these at Great Blue Hill, Canton, MA, Oct. 4, 2017. Native Americans used the plant for medicinal purposes and the berries can be used as a dye. <br />
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As a reversal of how I used to do the blog, above is a drawing I recently made. It is Inktober time, that month in the year where artists are urged to create a daily ink drawing for the 31 days of the month. I don't know how well I will do this year, so far not too well, only 2 drawings finished, but I may do better. In any case I managed this one of a couple of <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/chimaphila/maculata/" target="_blank">spotted wintergreen</a> plants with their growing seed pods. I used a dip pen and India ink for this drawing.<br />
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That is it for today, per usual comments are welcome. Please note that I have provided links to appropriate pages for each named plant, though the link for the Rose Hips is to a page that discusses uses. <br />
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<br />Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-3711042906868389242017-09-26T14:17:00.000-04:002017-09-26T14:17:10.750-04:00Asters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is officially Fall, the autumn equinox was last Friday, Sept. 22. Here in New England Asters are the native wild flower of fall. They are mostly white flowers with yellow centers, though there are some pink, violet, lavender or purple ones also. They bloom in the woods in the shade, and also in the open fields in the sun.<br />
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The photos today are of various Asters I have photographed in recent weeks. Identifying an aster isn't always easy, there are 100's of varieties world wide and about 40 here in New England.<br />
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I am not sure if the flowers above are <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/doellingeria/umbellata/" target="_blank">Flat Topped White Aster</a> or <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/sericocarpus/asteroides/" target="_blank">Toothed White Topped Aster</a>, I didn't photograph the leaves which would tell me, though I know I photographed the flowers at Nasketucket Bay State Reservation in Mattapoisett, MA. on Sept. 1, 2017<br />
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Also photographed at Nasketucket Bay was this <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/oclemena/acuminata/" target="_blank">Whorled Wood Aster.</a> I lucked out with a splash of sunlight to illuminate this plant as it was growing beside the path in the woods. <br />
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I think the above photo is of <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/symphyotrichum/lateriflorum/" target="_blank">Calico or Starved Aster</a> flowers, I photographed this in the power line cut at Ames Nowell State Park, Sept. 21, 2017. In this instance the flowers were a pale lilac, quite pretty. <br />
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I believe the flowers above are from a <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/symphyotrichum/racemosum/" target="_blank">Small White Aster</a>, though there is at least one other species that is possible. I suppose I should be taking one of my field guides with me on my walks, but I hate carrying the extra weight. Photographed at Great Blue Hill, in the Blue Hills Reservation Sept. 23, 2017. <br />
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These next two photos are both of <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/symphyotrichum/novae-angliae/" target="_blank">New England Asters</a>, our largest and showiest of the Native Asters that bloom in the fall. They can have a fairly wide color range from pink to a dark purple. These were photographed at Forge Pond, Hanover, MA. Sept. 24, 2017. <br />
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The yellow in the above photo is one of our many varieties of goldenrod. <br />
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I found this web site if you are interested in reading more about <a href="https://www.theflowerexpert.com/content/growingflowers/flowersandseasons/aster" target="_blank">Asters</a>, also the New England Wild Flower web site lists all of these species, links to their site are attached to their names above. Please note my Wild Flower guides are old, recent genetic information has caused the Asters to be reclassified (Latin names) and NE Wild Flower Society uses some different common names. If you garden some of these asters have been developed as garden plants, usually easy to grow, it is nice to have some flowers that wait until fall to bloom. <br />
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I thought I would end this post with a Dragonfly photo, this is one of the Autumn Meadow Hawk dragonflies, which one I am not sure, I am told that to make a correct ID the dragonfly needs to be examined under a microscope. Since I never capture what I photograph I have to be satisfied with just a general ID. Still I think it is a pretty picture. I can tell you that this is a male, males are red, females yellow, and it is one of the white faced species. <br />
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That is it for today, per usual comments are welcome. Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-82156858796560667312017-09-19T15:11:00.000-04:002017-09-19T15:11:26.816-04:00Introduction to some Mushrooms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mushrooms, we have all seen them, either on our lawns, or in the woods and even in the supermarkets. But there is more to the group than the standard white mushroom with gills that we purchase in boxes at the Market. Depending on the source mushrooms have been broken down into at least 12 groups, only one of which is mushrooms with gills.<br />
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I have always been fascinated by mushrooms and when I acquired a digital camera and started wandering the local woods and parks I also started photographing anything that I found unusual or interesting. Today's photographs are a selection of some of those photos, some made this year (2017) but others made in previous years. I am not going to try a identify these photos with specific Latin names, only the general group to which they belong, nor am I going to address edibility, if you are interested in that I suggest you purchase one of several guides that can be found either on-line or in a bookstore. It takes more than a photograph to correctly identify a mushroom, smell, spore prints, etc. are details given in books that I am not even going to try to touch here. Note: I rarely pick the mushrooms I see, so correct identification usually isn't possible.<br />
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Before I start identifying the photographs I want to say that all mushrooms have a couple of things in common no matter the shape of the fruiting bodies, and what I have photographed are "fruiting" bodies, they are fed and created by fungi networks (<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans Serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans Serif;">mycelium)</span></span> that live in soil, wood or other organic substances. The second trait they share is they reproduce by spores. <br />
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OK, on to the photographs, the mushroom in the top photograph (by the way the color is accurate, I did not Photoshop this photo other than to resize it for the web) is a member of the Polypore or Shelf Mushroom group. I believe that this is actually a <a href="http://americanmushrooms.com/edibles4.htm" target="_blank">Sulphur Shelf</a>, but since I am not sure the species of the tree it is growing on I wouldn't eat it. I found this growing in my local Brockton, MA park just this past week. I actually pulled the car over as I was driving by so I could walk back and make the photo. <br />
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The mushrooms above are a member of the Coral Fungi family. They sort of look like coral don't they. I believe this is a Ramaria Sp. but could be totally wrong. I found these in Borderland State Park, Easton, MA. in 2011. <br />
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These spiky white balls are a member of the Puffball family. They have no gills, and while some members of this family may have stalks they still release their spores through slits in the outer covering that occur as the mushroom matures. Photographed this summer in my local Brockton Park. I believe this is Lycoperdon echinatum, but can't swear to it. <br />
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One family in the Mushroom category looks like a "standard" mushroom until you look under the cap to find there are no gills. The spores are released through tubes, so the underside looks spongy. This family is the Boletes. This a semi large family and I am not sure what the above is, perhaps chestnut Bolete (Gyroporus castaneus). Photographed in Ames Nowell State Park, Abington, MA. this summer. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
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These next three photographs are of mushrooms that belong to the Agarics or gilled mushroom family, which includes most of the mushrooms found in the supermarket. This group is very hard to identify by looks alone as their appearance can mislead the identifier at different stages of growth leading someone to think they have an editable mushroom when in reality it is deadly poisonous.<br />
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The white dots on the above mushroom are the remains of the volva (the membrane that covered the mushroom as it developed, and ruptured as it emerged above ground). There are so many types of gilled mushrooms that I haven't even attempted to name these three. The one above was photographed in my local Brockton Park this summer. <br />
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Gilled Mushrooms often grow in in clumps, above are a trio that I found growing in the woods in Nasketucket Bay State Reservation in Mattapoisett, MA. this summer. <br />
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This larger clump also photographed this summer was found in Ames Nowell State Park. Can I say that I love to photograph clumps, well I also find individual mushrooms interesting but the clumps really spark my interest.<br />
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There are other families of Mushrooms that I haven't photographed (to my knowledge), they include Morels, Stinkhorns, Jelly Fungi, Cup Fungi, False Morels, and Hydnums (Tooth Fungi). I took my family names from a Petterson Mushroom guide I borrowed from the Library. Other information comes from a couple of web sites I have found that are devoted to North American Mushrooms. <br />
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<a href="http://americanmushrooms.com/index.htm" target="_blank">David Fischer's American Mushrooms</a>, <a href="http://www.mushroomexpert.com/index.html" target="_blank">Mushroom Expert, </a><br />
and <a href="http://visual.merriam-webster.com/plants-gardening/plants/mushroom/structure-mushroom.php" target="_blank">Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary </a> <br />
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The first two sites are packed with photographs and detailed information about mushrooms and how to identify them. They also both have information about guide books for those who wish to pursue an interest in Mushrooms. But be warned both sites are complex and finding exactly what you want may take some time and a bit of browsing. The Webster site identifies the structures of a mushroom. <br />
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One last photo, and this one has nothing to do with mushrooms. It is a Doe that I photographed in the Power Line cut at Ames Nowell State Park. I rarely see or even hear deer on my walks even though I know most of the locations where I walk have them in residence. On the day I was in the park there were very few other visitors and none of them must have been in the cut prior to my arriving. This deer was eating until she heard me. She stood like that for about a minute (time for me to make a couple of photographs) and then took off. She looks healthy and well fed so hopefully she will survive the coming winter. She was fairly large so I am assuming a mature Doe, White Tailed Deer, sort of wish it had been a Stag but one takes what one can get.<br />
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That is it for today. Took me far too long to pull this post together, hope you enjoy it, comments are welcome, esp if you can identify any of my mushrooms. <br />
<br />Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-5078293713324615922017-09-03T14:17:00.000-04:002017-09-03T14:17:40.572-04:00Wildflowers I have found<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been trying to come up with the number of years I have spent hunting wild flowers, both before my digital camera (making photographs) and after its advent. Not quite sure but a ball park number of 15 years (give or take a year or two) sounds about right. Considering my age that is not a huge number of years, but since I am not and have never been a professional botanist I think it is a good number. I will of course check out wild flowers anywhere I travel and they can be seen, but the majority of my hunting grounds are fairly close to home in a pretty limited region, Southeast MA, with some excursions a bit further north. Habitat is mostly fields, woods, pond (lake) edges and some boggy areas that I can easily access. I don't have waders so I don't venture deep into bogs. What I am trying to say is that while I haven't by any stretch of the imagination "seen it all" I have seen and identified a lot of flowers/plants I see on my outings.<br />
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The flowers in today's post all share one common feature, these are the first photos I have made of the flower. Some flowers I knew about and the photos are just the icing on the cake so to speak. I was/am happy to finally have them, but I didn't have to do much research to pin a name on them. Others I had to look up, and in a couple of instances ask for help identifying. Oh, another common feature they are native to north America if not originally to MA and they have all been photographed in the past week or so. <br />
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The above little yellow flower (and I do mean little) is <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/xyris/montana/" target="_blank">Northern Yelloweyed Grass</a>. I found this in a boggy area between two lakes at Massasoit State Park, East Taunton, MA, August 30, 2017. This is one of those plants that I had seen drawings of but had never seen the actual flower until this past week. In one of my Wild Flower Guides the drawing of this flower is on the same page as Stargrass, a yellow flower that I think I have seen every year I have been looking for wild flowers. <br />
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Also found at Massasoit State Park, East Taunton, MA, August 30, 2017, <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/spiranthes/cernua/" target="_blank">Nodding Ladies Tresses</a>. This is one of our native orchids. Not very showy flower like Lady Slippers are, but still pretty, and I was very happy to find it growing so profusely at Massasoit. It was in the same boggy area as the yellow-eyed grass above. <br />
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These next two flowers are both types of clover, actually they are both Bush Clovers, and I found these in my local city park, D W Field Park, Brockton, MA., August 31, 2017. The pink flowers above are <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/lespedeza/virginica/" target="_blank">Slender Bush Clover.</a> <br />
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The above is <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/lespedeza/capitata/" target="_blank">Round Headed Bush Clover</a>. I have photographed this plant for years, but this year is the first time I have actually managed to find it in bloom. The flowers aren't very obvious and they don't last long. Found along the same path as the Slender Bush Cover above. <br />
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Not the best photo but for some reason I had a hard time photographing these flowers. Still is shows a flower and some of the plant leaves so it is representative. This is <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/chamaecrista/fasciculata/" target="_blank">Partridge Sensitive Pea</a>, and I found it at Nasketucket Bay Reservation in Mattapoisett, MA. Photographed Sept. 1, 2017. <br />
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This last plant had me totally stumped, it is semi parasitic like Indian Pipes as it links to a fungus network in the soil for its nutrients. In this case the associated trees are Oaks. Many thanks to the members of Native Plants of New England Facebook group for helping me to identify it. This is <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/hypopitys/lanuginosa/" target="_blank">Hairy Pine-Sap</a>, and is my missing 4th Parasitic plant. See my post on <a href="http://katwalkdesigns.blogspot.com/2017/07/parasitic-plants.html" target="_blank">Parasitic Plants</a> back in September, 2017. Photographed September 2, 2017, Ames Nowell State Park, Abington, MA. <br />
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That is it for new to me plants that I have seen in the past week or so. Actually there were a couple of others but these are the most interesting and the post was getting too long so I will stop here. Please note that there are links to GoBotany for each flower if you are interested in Latin names or other facts, or if you wish to view other images. <br />
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As a final image today, above is a young Great Blue Heron that I photographed waiting for dinner to swim by in my local park.<br />
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One last comment, on my trip to Mattapoisett I photographed 2 (new to me) butterflies, a Red Banded Hairstreak and a Zabulon Skipper that I have added to the Butterfly page. That is it for today, per usual comments are welcome. Hope you enjoyed this post.<br />
<br />Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-57818944125124056622017-08-27T14:35:00.000-04:002017-08-27T14:35:27.010-04:00Butterflies, Damselflies, and Goldenrod<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It has been too long since my last blog update. Oops though it isn't entirely my fault, I have been sick, very sick, but am now getting better and after about 4 weeks out of the field I have actually been able to get out with the camera. So today's post are some of my more recent photographs. This update was supposed to be about mushrooms, but my research just isn't happening as quickly as I would like so I thought I would post these instead. <br />
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These first two photographs are butterflies that are visitors to MA. They can't overwinter here (too cold) so they usually show up later in the summer, some years they never show up in large numbers. This year for some reason Monarchs arrived early and the Painted Lady above has also been seen in larger than usual numbers along with the Common Buckeye which is usually anything but common. <br />
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I photographed both butterflies in my local city park enjoying the Joe-pye weed. Made for a nice first outing after weeks off my feet. <br />
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These next two photos are both Damselflies. Damselfies are Odonate's as are Dragonflies. The difference between Damselflies and Dragonflies is partly size, Damsels are usually smaller, but also they can fold their wings. Dragonfly wings are always open, sometimes angled forward or backward but they can't fold neatly along the back. <br />
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The blue Damsel above is a Skimming Bluet. Both Damsels were photographed at Ames Nowell State Park, Abington, MA. Aug. 25th. <br />
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This orange beauty above is an Orange Bluet. I have been wanting to photograph one of these for a while so was happy to see them this week. <br />
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It is August so it is time for the Goldenrods to start to bloom. There are many varieties, these two photographs represent just 2 of them, and sorry I can't be more exact than that today. I was going to include a photo of ragweed in flower, but the photo isn't as sharp as I prefer so am leaving it out. But ragweed is also in bloom and is usually the real cause of hay-fever. Goldenrod pollen is really too heavy to float in the air and be breathed in. Ragweed flowers, on the other hand, are small and green so most people don't even notice that the plant is in bloom, so they blame the showy goldenrod that is so conspicuous. <br />
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Note that the top photo shows a stalked goldenrod, these plants are often quite tall and showy, the second image above is a flat topped goldenrod, with more bushy growth characteristics. The leaves are also thinner than those on the top image. <br />
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Last image today is a Great Blue Heron waiting for dinner at the upper pond/lake in my local park here in Brockton. It stayed motionless while I made my photographs waiting for a fish or frog to swim too close. Hope it found dinner sooner rather than later.<br />
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That is it for today, per usual comments are welcome. <br />
<br />Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-62639349301006853242017-07-19T12:03:00.000-04:002017-07-19T12:03:10.113-04:00Showcasing birds<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I spent most of Sunday afternoon (July 16) at Daniel Webster MA Audubon sanctuary in Marshfield, MA. I was hoping to photograph birds and I did. I spent a lot of the afternoon in the South blind, not gazing at the pond which had limited activity but at the shore and a defoliated tree outside the right windows. In doing so I ignored (for the most part) the comings and goings of the resident Barn Swallows, who were busy tending to nests of young birds.<br />
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These first few photos are all of recently fledged birds, the <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Robin/id" target="_blank">American Robin</a> above is still a bit speckled and certainly isn't as dapper as mature robins are. <br />
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<a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Gray_Catbird/id" target="_blank">Gray Catbirds</a> usually look sleek and polished, this has to be a young one. It wasn't very happy down there either, and parents kept visiting. I didn't realize exactly what was going on until I looked at my photos later. The colors are right, but all that fluff? <br />
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This young <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barn_Swallow/id" target="_blank">Barn Swallow</a> looks a bit unfinished, certainly not as sleek looking as its parents are. Since there were several nests in the building with non-fledged youngsters this one may be from an earlier brood.<br />
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Some of my other bird photos from Sunday. <br />
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<br />This is a Female <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Baltimore_Oriole/id" target="_blank">Baltimore Oriole</a>, she isn't bright orange like her mate, but I think she is still a pretty bird. There were some Honeysuckle bushes with berries near the Blind, she was probably on her way to visit them. <br />
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I believe this is an adult <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Goldfinch/id" target="_blank">Gold Finch</a>, probably female from the coloration, it didn't hang around long, so this is my best photo. <br />
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Daniel Webster is one of the remaining nesting spots in state for <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bobolink/id" target="_blank">Bobolinks</a>. They build their nests in the grasses that are allowed to grown in the fields at Daniel Webster. Thankfully they wait to mow until the young Bobolinks have fledged and left the fields. But I have heard horror stories of parent birds looking for their nests after a thoughtless farmer has mowed a field early.<br />
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The above bird is a female Bobolink. She wasn't happy with me, even though I was on the mowed path. I have a feeling either her nest or some of her young ones weren't too far away from me. <br />
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Male Bobolink in flight, it wasn't my intention to make a flight photograph. I had been photographing a Redwing blackbird, and when I checked the display to see how the photo looked I noticed a bird just a bit beyond the blackbird sitting on some wire fencing. I was trying to photograph the bird on the fence wire, but it took off just as I snapped the shutter. Thankfully I was using a fast enough shutter speed that the bird is mostly in focus. By the way the male is still in breeding colors. <br />
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The not very good photo above is a <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Lesser_Yellowlegs/id" target="_blank">Lesser Yellowlegs</a>, it was just about at the limit of what I can photograph with my current lens. There were also a couple of Killdeer in the same general area, but they were a bit too far for me to make a good photo. The photographs of them were good enough to ID the bird but not to post. <br />
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The final photo is a view from Fox Hill of some of the property at Daniel Webster. I had a really good day with Birds Sunday, hope you enjoyed a look at some of my best photos. Please note that I have added links to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology All About Birds web site for each species above if you are curious to learn more about them. Per usual comments are welcome. <br />
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<br />Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-27986279640876817382017-07-14T23:47:00.000-04:002017-09-19T10:43:36.813-04:00Dragonflies - Some Skimmers<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Finally a Dragonfly post, first I want to say I am not an expert. I depend on a Facebook group I belong to for most of my identifications. However, today's post includes three very common Dragonflies, they can be found pretty much anywhere in North America where dragonflies are flying. These three all have a couple of other things in common, they are all <a href="http://www.odesforbeginners.com/family_guide/fam_skimmers.aspx" target="_blank">Skimmer Dragonflies</a> and they all (depending on the sex for some) develop <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://species-id.net/zooterms/pruinescence" target="_blank">pruinescence</a> as they age. Pruinescence is a waxy film usually white. Skimmers are the largest group of Dragonflies, if you want to know more about them click on the link above. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now on to today's photographs, above is a mature male <a href="http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/FieldGuideAction.get/id/47131" target="_blank">Widow Skimmer</a>, the image below is also of a Widow Skimmer, but this one doesn't show the pruinescence of the older Dragonfly. Note how the mature Male Dragonfly has developed white on the wings, blue on the abdomen, and black on the top Thorax. </span>Females may develop brown wing tips but won't have the white or blue though the thorax and abdomen will darken. I don't have a good photo of an older female. <br />
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The next three photographs are of <a href="http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/FieldGuideAction.get/id/47488" target="_blank">Common Whitetails</a>, note the different wing pattern between males and females. <br />
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The male Whitetail above is fairly newly emerged, the white patterning is still visible on the body. <br />
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I want to explain what I mean by the comment newly emerged (another term is Teneral). Dragonflies go through a nymph phase that lives in water, when it is time for the adult Dragonfly to emerge the nymph crawls out of the water usually on a grass or water plant stem, and like a chrysalis splits open allowing the adult form to emerge. Like butterflies they need to expand their wings and dry off. As the Dragonfly or Damselfly age they often undergo color changes, <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">pruinescence is just one of changes. </span><br />
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Above is a Whitetail female, note that her wing pattern is very different from the males. It can be confusing for beginning Dragonfly observers I know I though I had found a different species only to discover that no, it was one I had already identified just a different sex.<br />
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I have one last example for today's post. The <a href="http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/FieldGuideAction.get/id/47452" target="_blank">Blue Dasher</a> is another very common dragonfly, and from what I have read one of the most studied. I think they are a rather pretty, certainly more colorful than the other two Dragonflies in this post. <br />
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Above is a mature male Blue Dasher and you can see where the name comes from with the blue <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">abdomen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One last photograph, not a very good one but I was trying to photograph a female Blue Dasher as she was depositing eggs on the surface of the lake at Ames Nowell State Park. </span><br />
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<br />Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-64964993123242584092017-07-10T12:45:00.000-04:002017-07-10T12:45:18.134-04:00Some Recent Bird Photos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I heard the bird in the above photo before I saw it, and when I was able to check the photo I immediately recognized it. This is a fledgling <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Baltimore_Oriole/id">Baltimore Oriole</a>. It was calling out for one of its parents to come and find it and feed it of course. I first found a fledgling Baltimore Oriole a couple of years ago in my local park. That one was on the ground and making a huge racket. I photographed it but left it alone per what I have read on-line about fledgling birds - parents are usually somewhere close so they don't need human help. I wasn't too concerned about the one above since a parent soon showed up, at least that is what I think happened. I never saw the adult bird but the fledgling stopped its chirping and I heard leaves rustling so I think mom or dad arrived with a meal. What happened to the one in the park I don't know, hopefully it could fly enough to get off the ground once a parent arrived to claim it. This one I photographed at Ames Nowell State Park, Abington, MA. <br />
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This is a House or <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/House_Sparrow/id">English Sparrow.</a> Normally I don't share photographs of these birds, they aren't native to the US and have become something of a pest. Taking nest boxes that birders would rather go to native birds that are quite frankly usually prettier, like Blue Birds. But this is a <a href="https://www.thespruce.com/bird-leucism-387342">leucistic</a> bird. Note that the feathers have little to no color while the eye is a normal dark color. If this were an albino bird the eye would be pink or red. I photographed this bird at Trailside Museum, Blue Hills Reservation, Milton, MA. <br />
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These next two photos were made at the same spot, Ames Nowell State Park, Abington, MA. but days apart. On the first occasion clouds had moved in and I didn't have enough light to get anything other that a silhouette of this Humming Bird. That said the shape is unmistakable. <br />
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I went back a couple of days later and had enough sun to pick up some color. Male <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-throated_Hummingbird/id">Ruby Throated Hummingbird</a>, stretching wings prior to taking off from its perch. The area where I photographed the bird (I have a feeling it is the same one) has many bushes of flowering native azalea. But I have seen Hummingbirds in this area before. One spring I watched and listened as a male sang from the top of a tree, marking territory I thought, but I wasn't able to get any photographs that year, so it was fun to get them now. Of course I have seen Hummingbirds around bird feeders, but somehow it is more fun to find them out in the field (so to speak) <br />
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The above bird is a <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Song_Sparrow/id">Song Sparrow</a>, one of our native sparrows. I photographed this one in the field at the Governor Ames Estate in Easton, MA. The field has been allowed to grow wild, and is covered with grasses and wild flowers. I go hunting butterflies, but the Song Sparrows love the field, between the grass seeds and insects it has to be a wonderful food source. Usually there is at least one that will perch on some taller plants and chirp at me, letting all the other birds in the area know there is an invader in their field. This one was pretty close to me, but it bravely held its ground (perch) while letting others know to beware.<br />
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Photographed the above bird at Massasoit State Park, East Taunton, MA. over the weekend. I believe this is a fledgling <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-winged_Blackbird/id">Red-wing Blackbird</a>, it certainly sounded like one and I know that adult birds had a nest in the area I photographed this bird. Otherwise I just like this photo the bird seems to have a cheeky expression. <br />
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That is it for today, next time I think I will do Odes, they can be beautiful, though I am not sure about my photographs sill I find them interesting so want to share. Per usual comments are welcome. <br />
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<br />Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-16955249572390312212017-07-04T11:13:00.000-04:002017-07-04T11:13:33.429-04:00Parasitic Plants<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The thing to remember is that all of these representatives are true flowing plants, they are not mushrooms or other fungus.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> Those don't just look like flowers they are flowers and the plant will set seed after a pollinator comes to visit. The one thing they all have in common is they lack chlorophyll so they cannot produce their own nutrients from the sun and must acquire them from other sources. </span></div>
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A second and much more common parasitic plant is <a href="http://botany.org/Parasitic_Plants/Monotropa_uniflora.php">Indian Pipe</a>. I am sure that most of us who spend any time walking in woods have seen these ghostly stalks poking their heads up in the forest floor. Since their main host is pine trees they are often seen growing through a bed of pine needles. Unlike my other two parasitic plants Indian Pipes don't use specialized roots to attach to their hosts roots instead they take advantage of a soil fungus which is itself feeding off of the pines. <br />
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These newly emerged plants above all have their flower heads pointing down. This keeps the rain water out of the flower. As the plants mature the flower heads will tilt more horizontally then vertically.<br />
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The above photo shows the flower heads in various positions. Once pollinated the flower head will move to a vertical position. I once saw a bumblebee crawl out of the flower of an Indian pipe, started me so I didn't get a photograph, but it also reminded me that these are not mushrooms. <br />
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The old plants turn brown or black. You can see that happening in the above group photo, note that most of the flower heads with their developing seed pods have turned up. You can find these plants in pine woods throughout the summer if there has been enough rain to support their growth, the plants don't survive very long, a few weeks or so. <br />
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My third Parasitic Plant is <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/conopholis/americana/">Squaw Root</a>, and it uses specialized roots to feed off of Oak Trees. I have only found this plant in one location, though a couple of years apart. The photo above shows it in bloom. <br />
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Here you see it in a later stage where the seeds are developing. The above photo actually represents the first time I found the plant, while the first photo is the 2nd time. The plants bloom in May (in MA) but develop over a month or two, my second photo was made in June. According to what I have read the plants can linger through winter though they will turn brown. <br />
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As I mentioned above I have heard that there is one other Parasitic Plant to be found in MA., however I cannot find an official list of Parasitic Plants in MA so I am unable to find a name. I believe it is a multi bloom version of Bloom Rape (there is a plant like that in VT. it is not native and hasn't been found in MA as far as I know.). If any reader has further information please feel free to share it with me.<br />
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That is it for today. Hope you enjoyed seeing and reading about our Parasitic Plants. <br />
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I wasn't familiar with <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Tree_Swallow/lifehistory">Tree Swallows</a> until I started visiting Daniel Webster a MA Audubon sanctuary in Marshfield, MA. Barn Swallows I knew, with their orange fronts and blue black backs they were a familiar sight as they had a colony at the Boat House on Greenwich Point. But the hansom blue, black and white tree swallows I don't recall seeing prior to Daniel Webster. There they are a constant during spring and summer, flying over the fields and Panne catching insects on the wing. By fall they are gone heading off to their wintering areas. <br />
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Above is a Tree Swallow that I photographed at Daniel Webster. It was breeding season, in fact I had just seen a pair mating at one of the bird houses, and this bird was far more interested in its own affairs than it was in me even when I was just a few feet away. <br />
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Tree Swallows are cavity nesters, so bird houses are just what they love. At Borderland State Park near the old White Farm house bird houses are incorporated into the fencing. Tree Swallows usually are the occupants. I can see where in a time before pesticides Tree Swallows would have been valuable neighbors.<br />
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Down in the field at Attleboro Springs, MA Audubon they have a scattering of bird houses around the edges of the field. Earlier this year I photographed this tree swallow poking its head out of one of the boxes. Obviously a pair had taken up residence. <br />
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Yesterday I was back down in Attleboro, checking out the field for butterflies, and noticed a lot of activity around the bird house. <br />
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Parents were being kept busy bringing food to the young ones inside the house. The parent was really shoving it down the throat of this young bird. <br />
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Another view of young birds being fed. From the look of them, I would say they are almost old enough to be out of the nest box, learning to fly and catch their own bugs.<br />
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That is it for today, for more information about Tree Swallows click on the link attached to the first mention of their name in the first paragraph. Per usual comments are welcome. Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-42903885397330861952017-06-22T13:39:00.000-04:002017-06-22T13:39:29.887-04:00Some Flower Photographs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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OK I sort of promised flower photographs in my last update.<br />
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A little personal history. Back in the 1980's I started walking in the Blue Hills Reservation which is just outside of Boston, MA. I decided to sign up for a sponsored walk that would take a group from one side of the Reservation to the other, about 8 miles. We didn't finish the walk, one of the hikers in our group blew out her knee and couldn't finish, but along the way our leader had pointed out the various wild flowers that were just coming into bloom. I got interested, and thought it would be a good way to motivate my walks, looking for new wild flowers to ID. So I purchased a Petterson Guide to Wildflowers and spent the next several years on the hunt. No camera, those were back in the days of film and I couldn't afford either the film or the camera, but I did try to draw some of the flowers I found. After several years I had to give it up, just walking in the woods would cause my eyes to water and my nose to run. I had become allergic to something, probable leaf litter molds.<br />
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After a break of about 20 years I started walking again, wanted to get in shape and loose some weight. Thankfully I seemed to have outgrown (aged out) of the allergy. But I also try to stay on trails that don't have leaf litter. By that time I had acquired a digital camera (for the blog actually) and it was a no brainer to begin making photographs of the flowers I found.<br />
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So here we are thousands of photographs later, above is a clump of Blue Eyed Grass, photo was made at Massasoit State Park, East Taunton, Ma. this June. <br />
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Not a wild flower and certainly not a native one to MA, but I love poppies. This one was blooming in the bird/butterfly garden at Oak Knoll a MA Audubon Sanctuary in Attleboro, MA. Also photographed this June. <br />
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Not sure if these are native Iris or imported ones, but these were growing in the water at Lake Rico in Massasoit State Park, East Taunton, MA. I don't believe the blue iris are as invasive as the yellow ones, so please if you want to plant water iris plant the blue not the yellow. <br />
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These next two photos I just like the lighting (image) I captured. Another not native flower, I believe this is Evening Lychnis, or as Go Bottany calls it <a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/silene/latifolia/">White Campion</a>, but I could be wrong, there are a couple flowers that look a lot alike with just small variations. But I am pretty sure I am right. Photographed at Ames Nowell State Park, Abinton, MA. also in June. <br />
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Last flower image, is Daisy Fleabane, this is a native plant, one found in open fields and waste areas. Still I think it can be a pretty flower and I really like this photo. Photographed at Ames Nowell State Park, Abington, MA. June 2017. <br />
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Sorry I can't resist, the Checkerspots are back at Attleboro Springs field. Not in huge numbers but they are back as of this week. Above is a photo of a Baltimore Checkerspot I made at the site, love their orange eyes and tips of antennae. Checkerspots are a very pretty mid sized butterfly.<br />
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That is it for today. As noted previously comments are welcome. Though I have a feeling I have lost most of my readers. There will be art again, eventually, I just don't want to promise when. <br />
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Late last week I took a trip into Boston to met a friend at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. First time I had been back to the museum for several months. A combination of things has kept me away, mostly weather related. Then I get out of the habit and just end up not making the trip. Not good, as there are several exhibits at the museum that I want to spend more time with. On this trip the main focus was the <a href="http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions">Matisse in the Studio</a> Exhibit which is in the large gallery space. Though we also spent time in the Botticelli exhibit.<br />
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<a href="http://www.henrimatisse.org/biography.jsp">Henri Matisse</a> was a French Artist who along with several other Artists was involved with the beginnings of modern art in Paris around 1900. Unlike Picasso who worked at developing his artistic skills as a young man Matisse didn't discover art until after he had started a career in law as a court administrator. While he was recuperating from an illness his mother gave him some art supplies and he fell in love with art. He then returned to school in Paris to study art. If you wish to read more about Matisse click on the link embedded in his name above and read a full biography. <br />
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The exhibit pairs his paintings (selected as representing his entire career) with objects from his studio that he had collected or had been given and then used in his paintings. Matisse liked to paint from life.<br />
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In the painting above it is the screen and table that were items in his studio. Both are in the exhibit. <br />
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Both the tree above and the lithograph below are from a later time in his career/life, when he along with Picasso was interested in simplifying drawings and design. Course the men were lifelong friends by then and probably discussed their goals with their art. <br />
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I find that I enjoy looking at these simplified images. And I have to say that it isn't as easy to do as Matisse makes it look. <br />
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Matisse was also known for his use of color, which can be seen in the painting I posted at the head of this post. <br />
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I am not going to say much about the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandro-Botticelli">Botticelli</a> exhibit though it includes paintings from his instructor. While I enjoyed viewing the works I can't say that I really admire them. I can only take so many virgin's with child before I have had enough, and Botticelli lived at a time when religious art was the main stay of his career. They do have one of his Venus paintings, and another that shows Athena with a centaur, both classical themes that again I find a bit, wearing. That said both paintings are beautifully executed and if you like art of that period (Renaissance) are worth a visit to the MFA to see.<br />
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One totally non relevant comment, in the Matisse exhibit I saw a man going around to each painting and photographing it. He didn't bother to look at the paintings, well only enough to make the photograph, and then quickly moved on to the next one. What was he doing? Did he not have time to spend in the exhibit and wanted to document that he had been there? Did he honestly think he could study the paintings in his photographs as if he were in front of the actual works? By the way you can't, photographs lie, and gallery lighting isn't good enough for a really good photo. It seemed very strange to me. While I made a few photos (for the blog) I don't usually even try to photograph paintings. I am more likely to photograph sculpture or other works and then more as a memory jogger rather than as something I would study at leisure. As far as I am concerned he was just wasting his time and perhaps looking for bragging rights. Oh well it takes all kinds.<br />
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That is it for today. Next blog post will probably be pretty flower pictures. <br />
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The flower photo above is just because I like it, the flowers/plants are cow vetch (the purple) and sheep sorrel, the reddish spikes.<br />
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Amphibians are animals that while they may live on land have to return
to the water to lay eggs, and their young go through a stage where they
have to live in water. Today I am focusing on two groups of amphibians: Toads and Frogs. Some
Frogs live on land all the time and others prefer to live in the water.
Toads are pretty much land based once the emerge from the water.
Massachusetts has Two Toads, five True Frogs and Two Tree Frog species.
So far I have managed to photograph one type of Toad, four of the five
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The above photo made in April 2015 at Borderland State Park shows a toad in the water with an inflated throat for a Toad call. I chanced to be there on the day that the American Toads were breeding. The sounds attracted my attention first, then I noticed the activities in the water. The toads were hopping about, making toad noises, and swimming around, occasionally there would be some activity in the water that had things stirred up, toads piling on top of each other. Well really the males were piling on top a female who was laying eggs, but I couldn't see that in detail. Unfortunately they were a bit too far away for me to really document the event. There were hundreds of toads, or at least it seemed like there were that many, I had certainly never seen so many in one place before or since. <br />
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The above photo was made this year in May in Massasoit State Park and shows tadpoles in the water. I don't know what kind, maybe bullfrogs which I know live in the lakes at Massasoit. Anyway tadpoles are the intermediate stage for amphibians, they have to live in the water and develop (slowly) into adults. <br />
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The above photo is of a very young very small American Toad, made at Borderland in Aug. of 2015, please realize that this little toad was about the size of my thumbnail (3/4 inch) which is why the quality of the photo isn't very good. <br />
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Above is an adult American Toad, photographed this May at Massasoit State Park. I have been seeing a lot of toads there this year, 4 yesterday which is what sparked this blog post. <br />
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Pickerel Frog, this one was photographed this spring at Massasoit State Park, these frogs in my experience tend to wander away from water, though they aren't strictly terrestrial. <br />
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Bull Frog, also photographed at Massasoit State Park this spring. These guys prefer to live in the water at the edges of ponds. <br />
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Green Frog, and yes that is its name not just its color. This one was photographed at Houghton's Pond in the Blue Hills Reservation, September of 2012. These frogs also prefer to stay close to water, though in heavy rain they made head for the woods.<br />
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Wood Frogs, the top one photographed in a vernal pool this spring at Borderland State Park. The 2nd was photographed at Fowl Meadow part of the Blue Hills Reservation, Summer 2016. These frogs as their name indicates live in the woods.<br />
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Some day I hope to photograph the frog I am so far missing, the Leopard Frog. I doubt I will ever see a tree frog, they mostly live up in the trees which I don't climb. Oh yes you can relax now, most likely the next update will be flowers, no promises, but in the meantime comments are welcome. <br />
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I am not the only one out and about these past few days. Above are a couple of horseback riders I saw at Ponkapoag Pond in the Blue Hills Reservation, Canton, MA. yesterday (June 10). Not sure if you can tell from the photo but the horses are wearing net head protectors to keep the bugs away from their eyes and noses. <br />
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But the focus for todays post isn't human visitors to the parks I visit. It is the Painted Turtles that I have been seeing the past couple of days. They also seem to be on walk about, though their purpose is entirely different from mine or the horseback riders above.<br />
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In the past couple of days I have come across 3 painted turtles out of their ponds wandering the paths that I walk. Above is the first that I found, in a rain puddle at Ames Nowell State Park, Abington, MA. I fear I was mean and pulled the turtle out of the puddle in order to better photograph it. It took off through the grass (2nd photo) and wasn't in the least harmed by my handling.<br />
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Above are the two painted turtles I ran across yesterday at Ponkapoag. Note that the turtle in the lower photo has mud on her tail and back of her shell. She was heading back toward the pond. <br />
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And finally, this photo which I actually made last year in DW Field Park here in Brockton, shows the activity that has them out of the ponds and on the trail, digging a hole and laying eggs. It is that time of year for painted turtles. They leave their ponds to dig holes in sandy (or not so sandy) soil that is in a location that will get direct sun some hours a day. They will then lay eggs, between 2 to 20 depending on the size and age of the female. Once she covers her nest hole with dirt the nest is usually indistinguishable from the surrounding ground. Casual observers would never know she had been there. It takes about 90 days for the eggs to hatch, and the baby turtles will dig themselves out and head to the nearest body of water.<br />
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That is it for today. Hope you enjoyed the photos and learning a bit more about turtles. <br />
<br />Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-27076001884205212182017-06-10T12:10:00.000-04:002017-06-10T12:10:03.546-04:00A Change of PurposeOriginally the purpose of this blog was to document my development as an artist. Laid off from my job I had decided to go back to school and develop my ignored art skills. The problem is after so many years I find that my focus has mostly switched from drawing to photography.<br />
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Last fall I purchased a new camera which is allowing me to make much better photos of everything, including birds, which with my old camera had been pretty much off the table unless I was right on top of them.<br />
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To get these photos I spend more time outside on walks. Which is good
don't get me wrong, but it leaves less time for art. Then when I am
home I have to spend time on the computer evaluating and sorting the
photos I have made so again more time spent that can't be used for art.
Then there are the other chores of living, cooking and eating food,
shopping for food etc. Now I know that creating drawings doesn't have to
take a lot of time but... OK I will admit it, I am just not motivated
at the moment. So my other activities of reading and playing games on my
tablet seem to come out ahead. All this means that I have been
neglecting the blog, not good.<br />
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I have decided to stop
letting lack of art for the blog stop me from updating it. I have
photographs. Granted I share some of them on Facebook, others I post to a
photo sharing site for artists. But I hope those who follow my blog
will also be interested in reading about my walks and looking at photos.
I am not ruling out posting art. If I make some I will post it.<br />
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Earlier
this week I visited Houghton's Pond in the Blue Hills Reservation. I
was looking for anything interesting to photograph per usual,
dragonflies, butterflies, birds, and wild flowers top my list, but
sometimes there are frogs or toads or other animals. The walk that day
seemed a bit disappointing. There was a Spicebush Swallowtail, one of
the 4 black swallowtails in MA. but it didn't stop fluttering its wings
so the photos I made of it just didn't turn out well. Note: there is a
Spicebush Swallowtail on my butterfly page that did hold still if you
are curious about what they look like. <br /><br />
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There were these blooming water plants, that so far I have not been able to identify, blooming in the pond that feeds into Houghton's Pond. As I was about to leave the site I decided to go look at another pond that is at the far end of the parking lot. There was a family of Canada Geese swimming around and feeding. Then I noticed a bird in the tree just above me. And made the next series of photos. <br />
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Just a tail is visible in the above photo and also what looks like some grass hanging down. There aren't a lot of orange birds so my interest was caught. <br />
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Here you get to see the head, identifying the bird as a female Baltimore Oriole, note the mass of what looks like grass below her. <br />
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In this photo she is holding something in her beak, looks like a dried grass to me. <br />
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My final photo, when I first started photographing her I thought she was hunting for food in the branches of the tree, and I was trying for a body shot, turns out she was building a nest, I will l have to keep on eye on this tree in my future visits to the Pond. <br />
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Last photo is a view of the beach at Houghton's Pond where locals can come to swim (well get wet, the lifeguards don't really want people swimming) and sit in the sun for free. It is a small pond, the walk around it is about a mile, but they have picnic tables and grills so it is a popular spot.<br />
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One last comment, my Esty shop is closed. Esty has made changes to their payment policy that I am not going along with, I will be taking down the links at some point but just wanted to post a FYI. Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-86808423745890939332017-03-01T19:35:00.000-05:002017-03-01T19:35:17.113-05:00March brings some sketches<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I can't believe it is March already. I was going to do another Feb. update, then I caught a cold and just didn't have the energy to draw, so the update didn't happen. The sparrow sitting at the feeder in the above drawing was going to be the header for that update, instead I stopped working on it and finally finished it this morning. Not totally pleased but I was tired of working on it so it will have to do.<br />
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I used another of my personal reference photographs for this little guy. Drawing with various graphite pencils in one of my smaller sketchbooks. <br />
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The next 3 images are from my Scavenger Hunt sketchbook. All drawings are done from life using a .1 Copic Multiliner pen. I am not doing any preliminary pencil work, so sometimes there are mistakes that I try to modify and/or correct. I think all the images are self explanatory. The Scavenger Hunt lists are posted weekly in the WetCanvas Art From Life forum. Artists can use any media for their artworks, I just choose to use pen and ink as a challenge to me. <br />
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Above is a 2nd page for the same hunt as the top page. I am fairly happy about the shoe, but the cereal box isn't proportioned correctly, it was/is a large of box of Cheerios and should have been taller in the drawing. Ah well, that is why we do these studies. <br />
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Only one page for the current Hunt (which ends today, March 1). Top is a potato peeler that I purchased way back when I moved out of my parents home into my own apt. Been a long time, and they now have fancier peelers, but this one still works so I use it. The other two items are a flashlight, and a tube of paint. Not my best work but at least I managed a couple of drawings. Finally starting to have a bit more energy and am not quite so bonded to the tissue box. <br />
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Photos for today: The lakes and ponds in my local area are all full and overflowing. This photo is from Ames Nowell State Park in Abington, MA. Not much green as of yet, but hopefully the winter snows are behind us. Oops shouldn't even think that, as I write I am hearing a weather forecast for light snow on Friday. Ah well, I can only hope that the adjective "light" is the operative word, one April 1st we had about 20 inches of heavy wet snow, that was no fun at all. <br />
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A first sign of Spring, I found these snowdrops almost blooming in the garden at Borderland State Park, in Easton, MA. on Monday. We have had quite a few warmish days (temps in the 60's) so wasn't entirely surprised. Just hope the trees don't wake up too quickly only to be hit by a cold snap in April. That happened last year and it wasn't good for some fruit trees. Course the cold last year also killed off a lot of the Winter Moths so there was some good that came out of it.<br />
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That is it for today. Am thinking about what I want my next project to be. I should be painting, maybe, check back in a week or two to find out. In the meantime comments are always welcome. <br />
<br />Kathleen Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270559181258839289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374006959766998629.post-89443134971359641842017-02-12T13:09:00.000-05:002017-02-12T13:09:07.284-05:00More Sketches, Titmouse and Stuff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The reference for the Tufted Titmouse above was another of my more recent bird photographs. I suppose I should have darkened the background a bit more, but the reference isn't that high contrast and I wanted to keep the same soft feeling for this drawing. Done with 2H, HB and B grade pencils it wouldn't have been easy to go a lot darker in any case. Just trying to get my drawing chops back up to par. Not totally displeased with this, it does look like a Titmouse. <br />
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I know the circles are seriously out of shape, and the "leaf" motifs aren't all the same size, nor are the center segments. The reason is that I did this drawing entirely by hand, usually when I am doing circles I pull out my campuses and use them (it can bother me if circles are too wonky) but I was just exploring designs so decided not to do that. After I finished the pencil drawing I inked the whole thing using a dip pen and one of my new crow quill nibs with India Ink. The paper in the sketchbook I was using seemed to spread the ink a bit so the lines aren't as fine as they should be. After I finished inking (and let it dry overnight) I erased out the pencil lines.<br />
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Design is based on some architectural motifs that I photographed on Chicago buildings over Christmas. I am working on another piece the same shape and wanted to play a bit with designs, and how to shade the background for the outer ring. Not sure how I feel about this, it seems to cry out for color, but I also like the black and white version. <br />
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Managed only one page this week for the WetCanvas Scavenger Hunt. Part of my excuse is that a lot of the prompts called for outside (meaning outdoors) images and our weather here in MA just hasn't been sitting outside weather (too cold, too wet, rain and snow). Hopefully I will do better next week. Done in the sketchbook I seemed to have dedicated to this with a .1 Copic Multiliner pen. Again these were drawn directly in ink, no pencil underdrawings. The screwdriver isn't too bad, considering. <br />
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From a walk last week in one of the Blue Hills Reservation sections this is a photo of lichen covered boulders, left by the glaciers at the top of a hill that goes down to Ponkapoag Pond. Note the smaller rock balanced above the gap between two others. MA not only has a foundation of granite but it also has a great many rocks and boulders left loose on the surface by retreating glaciers. That is one reason why we have so many stone walls, they had to get the rocks out of the fields to plow them, so why not build something. Oddly enough early settlers mostly didn't use stone for their houses, they preferred wood or brick for those. <br />
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A photograph from Friday of snow left by Thursday's all day snow storm, a small local park. I think we only got about 8 inches but other areas of the state got several inches more. Yesterday (Saturday) we had another couple of inches of snow then clouds for the rest of the day. Since there was no sun I didn't take the camera out. Today we again have clouds only today we are getting some rain which is expected to turn to snow overnight then we are scheduled for another storm tomorrow. ACK one winters quota of snow storms in about 5 days. It is more fun when they are spread out over several weeks.<br />
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That is it for today, per usual comments are welcome. <br />
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