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Bird Quilt from the Baby Shower

By Corey September 30, 2009 15 comments

This weekend Daisy and I held our baby shower at our home and a good time was had by all.  The food, the games, and friends and family made it what a baby shower should be: a joyful occasion (the competition to see who could empty a baby bottle of beer fastest didn’t hurt either).  [...]

Artist Rebecca Mendoza

By Corey March 25, 2009 No comments yet

On the second day of the Mesoamerican Bird Festival we had a treat in the evening, an exhibition of hummingbird art by Honduran artist Rebecca Mendoza.  Each piece of art was of one species of hummingbird and Rebecca strategically used glitter to represent the hummingbirds’ amazing plumage.  Granted, glitter in hummingbird art isn’t for everyone but I [...]

The Art of Debbie Goodman

By Mike January 10, 2009 3 comments

I recently discovered the work of Deborah Goodman, a talented nature artist out of Utah. The images of images of birds and other wildlife Debbie creates out of cut paper are fantastic, while the fact that she donates the proceeds of her art sales to wildlife and humane charities is positively meritorious. Thrilled by the [...]

Review of All the World’s Birds by George LeClerc, Comte de Buffon

By Corey December 5, 2008 4 comments

When I am having anything larger than the mailbox in my apartment building shipped to me I specify that I need to have it shipped to my job because it is a pain to walk over to the local post office and pick up a package seeing as the hours that I work tend to [...]

Audubon: Early Drawings

By Mike December 3, 2008 2 comments

Everyone knows who John James Audubon became: a renowned artist and naturalist whose inimitable style and spirit made him the paragon of American birding.  Many even know where he began and of the travails that tossed Jean Jacques Audubon from Haiti to France and then into the heart of a still wild America. Yet how [...]