This painting was SOLD on ebay.
Along with being a gardener, my wife is a bird watcher. She knows all about birds and taught me everything I know about them. Before we met, I didnt know a titmouse from a nuthatch. Now I know and recognize them and even their sounds.
Its turned out that birds are very interesting creatures. I highly recommend installing several feeders in places where you can easily watch them. Install some bird houses too. The process of watching a pair of songbirds create and manage a brood is a neat experience. If youre lucky enough to watch the babies get booted from the nest, you realize how vulnerable they are.
We now have songbirds galore here as a result of the birdhouses and feeders. At dawn it sounds like one of those hi fidelity recordings of birds in a forest that people use to relax. Its a great way to wake up.
Hmmmm
frogs to go to sleep and birds to wake up. All I need now is some wild animal to keep me company during the day. Rosie wouldnt like that.
This is a first attempt at creating an Art Card or ACEO. ACEO stands for Art Cards, Editions, and Originals.
These cards have one main rule - they are 3.5 inches by 2.5 inches - the size of a trading card.
Turns out they are popular on ebay and artists from all over the world place auctions to sell them. The good news is theyre not expensive. So, one could start an art collection of original art, from a wide variety of artists, without breaking the bank.
From my perspective, they are great fun to do. Im definitely going to start creating these. Dont know that Ill ever sell any but the fun is in the making.
You can find them on ebay by searching for ACEO art.
Two years ago I built this little bird house to see if I could attract Wrens. It worked very well. We even had a couple of broods of Chickadees as well.
The little house was easy to build and the design offers a few useful benefits that make it durable, easy to maintain, and most importantly, successful in attracting the birds.
- Made of red cedar or redwood. No exterior finish needed.
- 1″ diameter hole for wrens and chickadees-important!
- Small and compact-important!.
- Proper interior depth from the hole-important!
- Overhangs around hole-important!.
- Metal hole guard prevents critters from chewing the hole.
- Bottom is hinged for easy cleaning.
- Mounted on 3/4″ electrical conduit for easy installation. Because it’s a thin tube, you can easily slip it deep into the ground.
- Pole mount is a plastic floodlight mount screwed to the bottom. It simply slips onto the pole. Slip it off to clean it. Easy!
Here are a couple of good books on songbirds too if you’re interested…
