Beautiful Inland Pacific NW life outdoors
We have been doing hummingbirds video with a camera Pete got for his 30 years at Kaiser. It is so fun! The previous post had a link to the video but when I tested it last night it didn’t seem to work so I thought I’d put it up again today with a smaller file so we wouldn’t have to wait so long for it.
You know, old folks fiddling with technology. Please let me know if you have any problems with this. Thanks!
The kids are back, noisy and darting around outside making hummingbird heaven for us. Hence, witness the bright colored flashes of neon birds everywhere. We have already started to spend inordinate amounts of time outside watching them. Because our deck is a buzzing hummingbird haven. How could this not be? Honestly, we are surrounded by forest and natural honeysuckle vines everywhere.
These birds are just amazing fliers, including abilities like; jet propulsion frontwards, backward, sideways. They are also quite communicative, listen to the chirping, buzzing like in Start Wars, and scolding each other. Flitting in and out in a second. We do this hummingbird event all summer long, every year, check out other posts here. It almost seems like they need anger management sometimes.
Here are some amazing clips put together already:
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Okay, three guesses at what subject will be next for this old artist, now that the children are back home. LOL.
The previous post was photographs of the first crocus buds appearing 4.14.2019, following these are the first plein air paintings in a new sketchbook of these purple & white buds. A new 50 page 7″ x 5″ 130lb watercolor sketchbook inspires sketching to begin.
I have not done this kind of on-the-spot painting in a while and the blossoms seem a little rough. Next, here are some shots of the bright blossoms today. Check out the sleepy, little fuzzy guy in the blossom. Bzzzzz said the bee. He really is lethargic in the cool spring air but already covered with pollen.
Aren’t the colors vibrant?
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Happy Easter…. from me to you, with crocus plein air sketches in the yard today.
First sketch seems a bit mushy but the second one is getting to be a style I could really come to love. Let me know what you think….