You ever use a Cutco knife so sharp you cut your finger with it?
Well if so - welcome to the world of sharp knifes that one has to learn to use proper....but once you do, once you realize the value of a sharp tool - once you learn how to wield it proper - well then, let the tool connect to you and then use it with will.
I want to go on record as saying I have no idea whatsoever what the "green glow" is in the one image....I was just taking a picture of a hawk disturbed the birdbath....my guess though - something there was reflecting the bright sunlight and then in the camera it sort of looks like some kind of precious green stone.......oh well - tis on my neighbor's property! As was that damn hawk.
It's as good in a forest as it is at sea, Ken - and no less the joy of sharing nature in the raw. Beautiful pics my friend and if I had a camera I would show you my Crows and Jackdaws as they take their breakfast in the early morning, just after dawn (0800 these days) and I squawk at them and they talk back down by the river. The joy' of God's creation is magic indeed - everything of value is given free!
The thing and the reason why I like crows and ravens - is they like perty things and they communicate well. I got affinity for some things and loyalty that is so deep that it is unbreakable.
I'll elaborate, cause tis 2023 and why the hell not.
I got spirits in my home I invited in and they heard my call - I beckoned to them and they offered me repose in my own home and I offered them a place to be. It might not of been that way, but basically it was mutual - a mutual understanding and I feel blessed to have these spirits beckoned here protecting my home - literally.
T'is the same at sea my good friend - small is beautiful and we so often miss the magic of creation in the daily rush. I say stop - rest - and contemplate the value all those things that the Creator has freely given us. And my birds tell me every day that today is the only NOW I have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k74SCBDTHts
I'm pretty sure that is the same hawk that landed on the old-style fencing I have around my property (chain-link galvanized aluminum) that was here before we arrived and remains in place as testament to the quality of installation. What amazed me about this hawk is I seriously got close to it and it didn't seem to care...this is even after i threw a few rocks at it and missed miserably....Anyhow, I was chatting as I approached it and it really gave me no heed and in a way I sort of respect the dignity the bird demonstrated.
Thing is - really why was that hawk using my "bird-bath" cause that bath is for the little birds around and that hawk was up to no good and so I seriously hope it doesn't show up again and act all like it is the "king of the birds" around these hearn parts and just cause it is Sunday morning and I'm listening to some fine Christopher Parkening guitar playing beautiful ("Simple Gifts" - 1982), I'll say why:
1. I got a pistol crossbow I've been practicing with and I'll take that hawk out if I see it on the bird bath again and have the bow in hand. I care about the little birds around here and I'll defend them on my property.
2. I got some serious crow friends and if need be I can call to them and they will gladly form a murder and teach that hawk a lesson.
~
So that hawk is on notice - ......
(big smile)
Thank Bert for all your efforts,
Ken
* here is a link to the music I'm listening to....
I fully understand your thoughts and emotions. The link would not work but I found a version by Allison Kraus and Yo Yo Ma on you tube, great song and performance.
Coyotes are a concern around here and I suspect they ate my crippled cat that we adopted. A few weeks earlier I was watching two cardinals in the front yard and the cat killed one of them. Perhaps there was some sort of a natural order in all of that.
Well dag-gong....I can't find it. I got the original CD - I burned the songs...I guess I'll just have to upload here Bert, but tell you what here is the list of songs:
1. \Christopher Parkening\Simple Gifts\01 Präludium. We thank thee, Lord, we thank thee.wma
Bert - I could find a Youtube link with the album full...it is good music.
I don't mind coyotes, but cardinals - they usually get on my nerves - all their chirp, chirp, chirping.....I've seen quite a few of them around here recent as well as some other birds call this place home.
As for cats killing birds - lately I think there are too many feral cats out there.
So we didn't get the thinset tonight after visiting my father in law. I know the job needs to be done and I have some thinset already at the getaway place so it will happen when I bring that back I guess.
Here is how I plan on doing it....it will put some of the thinset in all the gaps...the places empty where water would just love to settle and cause trouble....and then, for the sake of artistry I'll take the little pieces combined with the broken parts found and I'll repair the place on the steps where breakage has occurred or gaps are there....but I'll tell you this - the tilework there stands strong and the quality of the craft was done with an open heart and mind.
I placed special pieces in the tilework - they were selected and placed with intent and repair work is always part of life but intent speaks to principle and I respect the suits in a deck of cards - diamonds, hearts, clubs, and spades - and I don't play with chance.
I like to work hard and I appreciate artistry of others and I try to make some of my own...so really - anybody got a problem with that?
If so - speak your mind, but know this - some of us love our children more than you could ever know.
The Buffalo Bills game tonight - that is the most fun I have had in a long time.
The score if I recall was something like 32 - 6....and number 91 on the Bills team - Ed Oliver - that guy is incredible amazing force on the field and that penalty they called on him - I call bullshit on that.
~
Now - you only heard this hear mind ya, but it was so funny in a way as the 1st half was coming to an end and Romo predicted the interception that indeed did happen - I'm sure the record keepers in the future will dash that interception off to the side of statistics that confound matters.
~
Bottom line is I knew tonight was do or die time for the Buffalo Bills this season and their schedule going forward ain't easy, but if you got a sort of well-deserved chip on your shoulder, then sometimes adversity is desired.
I think I have laughed more tonight then I have in a long time Ratio!
ha, ha, ha....
go Bills!
save it for later those other six pieces of artistry you made....I liked the one with grapes, but you must know I liked the ones I posted above especially - that is why I snipped em......
Sometimes when it seems the shit is hitting the effing fan...that is when a good laugh heals so much....so don't sweat the small stuff and let your artistry shine - but that slip stream planned in a way and not another acrylic painting done by ....well you know....done by that animal lover saving all the kitty cats....I can't remember her name just now - it has a "p" in it....anyhow - that is pretty incredible artistry in the way it results in forms unexpected.
Pasheen Stonebrooke is her name I think (as I make this edit).....I don't care for the purple background at her site, but none my business I reckon and the artistry in the link she provided at your site - top notch seems to me....let me go find it and I'll post it here.
ps - I guess I snipped them elsewhere, but sniped they were and they speak of a mind wrapping connections together....that is what I was thinking myself when I fiddled with the Escher print that now is only a memory.
There have been a few times I witnessed a big bird getting a smaller one. The most memorable was a time I was sitting in my office at the same place in the pictures (probably 16 or 17 years ago) and I literally heard a swoop and saw a few of the feathers detached floating in the air as the falcon (I'm pretty sure) made a direct hit.
The falcon was swift in attack but to do that on my driveway and come down so rapidly - that bird must of also had much agility.
I don't mind hawks keeping other birds in check, nor do I mind the black snake the one time the squirrels together pushed it out of their nest in the tree after it already had wrapped around the prey desired - even after it thumped on the ground it gave the fussing squirrels no heed when they came down to try to fluster it pointlessly.....it just swallowed the baby whole.
Such is life in the forest - been awhile since I've seen a big black snake around here - I miss them...I don't mind snakes, hawks, owls, squirrels, chipmunks, nor snails. I am fond of crows.
You ever use a Cutco knife so sharp you cut your finger with it?
Well if so - welcome to the world of sharp knifes that one has to learn to use proper....but once you do, once you realize the value of a sharp tool - once you learn how to wield it proper - well then, let the tool connect to you and then use it with will.
I want to go on record as saying I have no idea whatsoever what the "green glow" is in the one image....I was just taking a picture of a hawk disturbed the birdbath....my guess though - something there was reflecting the bright sunlight and then in the camera it sort of looks like some kind of precious green stone.......oh well - tis on my neighbor's property! As was that damn hawk.
~~~
BK
It's as good in a forest as it is at sea, Ken - and no less the joy of sharing nature in the raw. Beautiful pics my friend and if I had a camera I would show you my Crows and Jackdaws as they take their breakfast in the early morning, just after dawn (0800 these days) and I squawk at them and they talk back down by the river. The joy' of God's creation is magic indeed - everything of value is given free!
The thing and the reason why I like crows and ravens - is they like perty things and they communicate well. I got affinity for some things and loyalty that is so deep that it is unbreakable.
I'll elaborate, cause tis 2023 and why the hell not.
I got spirits in my home I invited in and they heard my call - I beckoned to them and they offered me repose in my own home and I offered them a place to be. It might not of been that way, but basically it was mutual - a mutual understanding and I feel blessed to have these spirits beckoned here protecting my home - literally.
That is why I am a homebody.
You know - a simple peasant.
A small house.
~
Ken
T'is the same at sea my good friend - small is beautiful and we so often miss the magic of creation in the daily rush. I say stop - rest - and contemplate the value all those things that the Creator has freely given us. And my birds tell me every day that today is the only NOW I have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k74SCBDTHts
Nature is awesome. The hawks here follow me around when I am mowing.
Bert,
I'm pretty sure that is the same hawk that landed on the old-style fencing I have around my property (chain-link galvanized aluminum) that was here before we arrived and remains in place as testament to the quality of installation. What amazed me about this hawk is I seriously got close to it and it didn't seem to care...this is even after i threw a few rocks at it and missed miserably....Anyhow, I was chatting as I approached it and it really gave me no heed and in a way I sort of respect the dignity the bird demonstrated.
Thing is - really why was that hawk using my "bird-bath" cause that bath is for the little birds around and that hawk was up to no good and so I seriously hope it doesn't show up again and act all like it is the "king of the birds" around these hearn parts and just cause it is Sunday morning and I'm listening to some fine Christopher Parkening guitar playing beautiful ("Simple Gifts" - 1982), I'll say why:
1. I got a pistol crossbow I've been practicing with and I'll take that hawk out if I see it on the bird bath again and have the bow in hand. I care about the little birds around here and I'll defend them on my property.
2. I got some serious crow friends and if need be I can call to them and they will gladly form a murder and teach that hawk a lesson.
~
So that hawk is on notice - ......
(big smile)
Thank Bert for all your efforts,
Ken
* here is a link to the music I'm listening to....
https://www.allmusic.com/album/simple-gifts-mw0000679311
I fully understand your thoughts and emotions. The link would not work but I found a version by Allison Kraus and Yo Yo Ma on you tube, great song and performance.
Coyotes are a concern around here and I suspect they ate my crippled cat that we adopted. A few weeks earlier I was watching two cardinals in the front yard and the cat killed one of them. Perhaps there was some sort of a natural order in all of that.
OK - here is the link:
Well dag-gong....I can't find it. I got the original CD - I burned the songs...I guess I'll just have to upload here Bert, but tell you what here is the list of songs:
1. \Christopher Parkening\Simple Gifts\01 Präludium. We thank thee, Lord, we thank thee.wma
2. \Christopher Parkening\Simple Gifts\02 Hyfrydol.wma
3. God of Grace and God of Glory
4. Brethren we have met to Worship.
5. Deep River, Spiritual.
6. Jesus, We want to Meet
7. Evening Prayer...
~~~~~
I could go on Bert - just like the Whisper of the Wolf - I mean some songs on the album deserve praise and some names need to be called out.
~~
Regards,
Ken
Thank you for sharing. Music like humor keeps us sane and collected in rough times.
Got it https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=FIrNUdv4LH8&list=OLAK5uy_k73bNY1d5fPpGlLGewcYNI9-PWHHtSj7Q
Bert - I could find a Youtube link with the album full...it is good music.
I don't mind coyotes, but cardinals - they usually get on my nerves - all their chirp, chirp, chirping.....I've seen quite a few of them around here recent as well as some other birds call this place home.
As for cats killing birds - lately I think there are too many feral cats out there.
So we didn't get the thinset tonight after visiting my father in law. I know the job needs to be done and I have some thinset already at the getaway place so it will happen when I bring that back I guess.
Here is how I plan on doing it....it will put some of the thinset in all the gaps...the places empty where water would just love to settle and cause trouble....and then, for the sake of artistry I'll take the little pieces combined with the broken parts found and I'll repair the place on the steps where breakage has occurred or gaps are there....but I'll tell you this - the tilework there stands strong and the quality of the craft was done with an open heart and mind.
I placed special pieces in the tilework - they were selected and placed with intent and repair work is always part of life but intent speaks to principle and I respect the suits in a deck of cards - diamonds, hearts, clubs, and spades - and I don't play with chance.
I like to work hard and I appreciate artistry of others and I try to make some of my own...so really - anybody got a problem with that?
If so - speak your mind, but know this - some of us love our children more than you could ever know.
The Buffalo Bills game tonight - that is the most fun I have had in a long time.
The score if I recall was something like 32 - 6....and number 91 on the Bills team - Ed Oliver - that guy is incredible amazing force on the field and that penalty they called on him - I call bullshit on that.
~
Now - you only heard this hear mind ya, but it was so funny in a way as the 1st half was coming to an end and Romo predicted the interception that indeed did happen - I'm sure the record keepers in the future will dash that interception off to the side of statistics that confound matters.
~
Bottom line is I knew tonight was do or die time for the Buffalo Bills this season and their schedule going forward ain't easy, but if you got a sort of well-deserved chip on your shoulder, then sometimes adversity is desired.
I think I have laughed more tonight then I have in a long time Ratio!
ha, ha, ha....
go Bills!
save it for later those other six pieces of artistry you made....I liked the one with grapes, but you must know I liked the ones I posted above especially - that is why I snipped em......
Sometimes when it seems the shit is hitting the effing fan...that is when a good laugh heals so much....so don't sweat the small stuff and let your artistry shine - but that slip stream planned in a way and not another acrylic painting done by ....well you know....done by that animal lover saving all the kitty cats....I can't remember her name just now - it has a "p" in it....anyhow - that is pretty incredible artistry in the way it results in forms unexpected.
Pasheen Stonebrooke is her name I think (as I make this edit).....I don't care for the purple background at her site, but none my business I reckon and the artistry in the link she provided at your site - top notch seems to me....let me go find it and I'll post it here.
~
Edit - it took awhile, but I found it - here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MO4sODUEvM
ps - I guess I snipped them elsewhere, but sniped they were and they speak of a mind wrapping connections together....that is what I was thinking myself when I fiddled with the Escher print that now is only a memory.
https://buffaloken.substack.com/p/sally-and-the-navigator
We both got stories to tell and in the telling I reckon....
I think your artistry is fine and I think I posted it here:
https://buffaloken.substack.com/p/anybody-in-the-mood
I got some meme ideas for the future but that "Hamassod" one you created - that one really was inspirational in a way I reckon....
See you around.
Ken
There have been a few times I witnessed a big bird getting a smaller one. The most memorable was a time I was sitting in my office at the same place in the pictures (probably 16 or 17 years ago) and I literally heard a swoop and saw a few of the feathers detached floating in the air as the falcon (I'm pretty sure) made a direct hit.
The falcon was swift in attack but to do that on my driveway and come down so rapidly - that bird must of also had much agility.
I don't mind hawks keeping other birds in check, nor do I mind the black snake the one time the squirrels together pushed it out of their nest in the tree after it already had wrapped around the prey desired - even after it thumped on the ground it gave the fussing squirrels no heed when they came down to try to fluster it pointlessly.....it just swallowed the baby whole.
Such is life in the forest - been awhile since I've seen a big black snake around here - I miss them...I don't mind snakes, hawks, owls, squirrels, chipmunks, nor snails. I am fond of crows.
~
BK