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mammoths, mammoths everywhere
There I was, innocently getting out of the car in the parking lot behind the bank, when I looked up and saw this on a banner on the wall of the local museum:Suddenly, I’m surrounded by mammoths! This well designed … Continue reading
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confederate violets
Spring came very late this year, and is perhaps extra welcome because of that. In our neighborhood park, the wild violets are everywhere, quite suddenly.Here, as in Kekionga, some people call the little pale ones “Confederate violets” because from a … Continue reading
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Tagged animals and nature, dogs, gadgets and technology, photography, words
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a great illustrator at work– zdenek burian
Anyone who loves prehistory knows the work of Zdenek Burian, even if his wonderful (and gloriously unpronounceable to English speakers) Czech name is unfamiliar. Burian (1905- 1981) was a prolific and successful literary illustrator and book designer, but he is … Continue reading
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tumblr sunday– bluebirds and persimmons
Here’s a treat for those of you with Retina displays and HD monitors . It’s a good photograph of animals and plants, but I’ve put it in the Coelacanth Gallery because it’s a purely spectacular explosion of color.Sometimes we could … Continue reading
trail rated
The dire corgi is now trail rated, with dubious results. I am conservative in the way I bring up my young corgis– I don’t let them tackle stairs, jump on and off the furniture, or hike long distances over uneven … Continue reading
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animals shake themselves
Film at 11– or whenever you want to watch it, really. You almost certainly know how cool it is when a wet dog shakes and all the water goes flying off. (Well, about 70% of the water, anyway.) Yes, it’s … Continue reading
tumblr sunday: bats
My tumblr picture file, the Coelacanth Gallery, is full of bats–not the ugly, scary mouse kind, but the big furry ones like flying foxes and these fruit bats. (They’re African straw-colored fruit bats, according to the notes on the photograph.) … Continue reading
why, good afternoon, professor!
It’s the mighty mighty Moondog himself. I very seldom find a picture of a real-world wolf that really looks a lot like Gideon Lykander, the werewolf librarian, in his transform. But this guy comes pretty close. Make the lighter markings … Continue reading
best of the drawing of the day, week 48: part two (mystery animal)
Yesterday’s best of was a skeleton (scroll down to see it). But what is it a skeleton of? My intention when I made the original drawing was just to draw a reasonably articulated skeleton of some kind of hexapod creature– … Continue reading
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best of the drawing of the day–week 48: part one (mystery skeleton)
This week’s “best of the drawing of the day” is in two parts. Yes, it has never been in two parts before, but, as always, the subject suggests the format. I bet you can see where this is going: For … Continue reading
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