Comments on: Bird Watcher http://www.idleminutes.com/2007/05/bird-watcher/ An Illustrated Journal Featuring The Artwork of Don West Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:04:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Don http://www.idleminutes.com/2007/05/bird-watcher/#comment-394 Don Fri, 04 May 2007 03:35:04 +0000 http://idleminutes.com/2007/05/03/bird-watcher/#comment-394 Thanks for reading Bonny! I worked around Engineers and builders for all of my er..um..."career" if you can call it that. I was a designer, draftsman, design engineer. All mere titles of course. It all translated to a way to earn a living by communicating with drawings. As such, I became aware of the little behind the scenes challenges of making buildings and machines work to best advantage. Nature's little animals, insects, chemicals, elements...all were obstacles of differing magnitude. They still are even in "The Twenty-First Century" (said with the voice of a 1950's radio announcer.) And hey, I was involved in the mundane stuff. So, triple the complexity of the challenges for the world of aviation, space, medicine, skyscrapers, etc. :-) My mind is easily boggled by such. Drawing I can handle...some days :-) Thanks for reading Bonny!
I worked around Engineers and builders for all of my er..um…”career” if you can call it that. I was a designer, draftsman, design engineer. All mere titles of course. It all translated to a way to earn a living by communicating with drawings.

As such, I became aware of the little behind the scenes challenges of making buildings and machines work to best advantage. Nature’s little animals, insects, chemicals, elements…all were obstacles of differing magnitude. They still are even in “The Twenty-First Century” (said with the voice of a 1950’s radio announcer.)

And hey, I was involved in the mundane stuff. So, triple the complexity of the challenges for the world of aviation, space, medicine, skyscrapers, etc. :-)
My mind is easily boggled by such.

Drawing I can handle…some days :-)

]]> By: Bonny http://www.idleminutes.com/2007/05/bird-watcher/#comment-395 Bonny Fri, 04 May 2007 02:20:17 +0000 http://idleminutes.com/2007/05/03/bird-watcher/#comment-395 What a great story! And Yay! for your observation skills! That was an interesting bit about the architects having to do 'battle' with nature. Wasn't it always that way, in almost every regard? This is a really nice drawing. I'm sure it will remind you of the day you looked up and saw the little family of birds. What a great story! And Yay! for your observation skills! That was an interesting bit about the architects having to do ‘battle’ with nature. Wasn’t it always that way, in almost every regard?
This is a really nice drawing. I’m sure it will remind you of the day you looked up and saw the little family of birds.

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