.....always
its
Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick
​themselves

Kinders having so much fun learning folding techniques for Origami builds. Jumping Frog has many obsticle courses to maneuver. Kinder D is showing us his frog 'nailing it' in the bridge pool. Joy!!!

Cloud Bank
pigment, varnish on wood panel
10"x30"
$3,000

The thunderstorm cloud, this is a heavy and dense cloud in the form of a mountain or huge tower. The upper portion is usually smoothed, fibrous or striated and nearly always flattened in the shape of an anvil or vast plume.Under the base of this cloud which is often very dark, there are often low ragged clouds that may or may not merge with the base. They produce precipitation, which sometimes is in the form of virga.
Cumulonimbus clouds also produce hail and tornadoes.

Windy Cloud. Varnish, pigment on wood panel. 10"X 30". $3,000

. Spring
Varnish, pigment on wood panel
20"x20"
SOLD private collector

Its officially Spring! Le fin de Rien. The end of nothing. What does that mean exactly?
Engagement,
Illumination,
Support,
Process,
Flat,
Depth,
Sound,
Smells,
Awaken,
Weave,
Circle,
Inner,
Outer,
What other thoughts come to mind? Comment Share Like

Stop by for a visit! Cottonwood Center of Arts, Colorado Springs, CO. Studio 110. Working on a solo exhibition for the Manitou Center of Art, Manitou Springs, CO in January 20 to March 20, 2017. Stay tuned for more exciting details.

Flight of the Sparrow: Cheeps from the hedges
India ink, pastels, white out on paper
4"x4"

The Great Sparrow Campaign also known as the Kill a Sparrow Campaign, and officially, the Four Pests Campaign was one of the first actions taken in the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1962. The four pests to be eliminated were rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. The extermination of the last upset the ecological balance, and enabled crop-eating insects to proliferate.

The campaign against the 'Four Pests' was initiated in 1958 as a hygiene campaign by Mao Zedong, who identified the need to exterminate mosquitoes, flies, rats, and sparrows. Sparrows – mainly the Eurasian tree sparrow– were included on the list because they ate grain seeds, robbing the people of the fruits of their labour. The masses of China were mobilized to eradicate the birds, and citizens took to banging pots and pans or beating drums to scare the birds from landing, forcing them to fly until they fell from the sky in exhaustion. Sparrow nests were torn down, eggs were broken, and nestlings were killed. Sparrows and other birds were shot down from the sky, resulting in the near-extinction of the birds in China. Non-material rewards and recognition were offered to schools, work units and government agencies in accordance with the volume of pests they had killed.
By April 1960, Chinese leaders realized that sparrows ate a large amount of insects, as well as grains. Rather than being increased, rice yields after the campaign were substantially decreased. Mao ordered the end of the campaign against sparrows, replacing them with bed bugs in the ongoing campaign against the Four Pests. By this time, however, it was too late. With no sparrows to eat them, locust populations ballooned, swarming the country and compounding the ecological problems already caused by the Great Leap Forward, including widespread deforestation and misuse of poisons and pesticides. Ecological imbalance is credited with exacerbating the Great Chinese Famine, in which at least 20 million people died of starvation.