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Holiday Beach, Ontario
Yesterday my friend Mike and I spend the morning and early afternoon at Holiday Beach Conservation Area in Ontario, Canada. From 1980 until around 1990 I spend a lot of time there as both a bird-watcher and hawk counter. But, not only did we go there we got to use the Gordie Howe Bridge to…
A few sketches
This is from January, 2001. It must have been a weekend or during the summer. We were sitting across the street at State and Liberty. Neither of these business exist any more. Minneapolis in the summer of 2001. Alexis was sitting and writing as I sketched. A viceroy crysallis. A beetle that I collected in…
Traveling with watercolors
I have a small traveling watercolor kit that I traveled with in the 1980s and 1990s. Recently I started doing it again, but haven’t done much. This are a few watercolors from the distant past. Attempting to paint ruby-throated Hummingbirds in nature was a challenge. however there was an perch near where we put up…
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