botanical curiosities and junkyard byrds: Owls occupy my mind

botanical curiosities and junkyard byrds

...Botanical Curiosities & Junkyard Byrds...Botanical art and curiosities, digital collage, assemblage gallery and studio site...featuring Recycled Artworks, the unNatural History of the Flora and Fauna found in the Hornby Island Recycling Depot environs... + studio 5 graphic design

Friday, July 22, 2011

Owls occupy my mind

Atlas Owl in broom...nocturne

CONTENTS...Atlas Owl...the End
a GALLERY of OWLS

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Welcome to the JunkYard Byrds gallery blog ...Glad you're here. The Junkyard features a few IMAGINARY byrds and the prototype BOTANICAL Curiosities Folio...created entirely from my photographs of JUNK. Hope you enjoy this digitally recycled Exhibition of PRINTS. I have included a random selection of 3D work as well as photographs of the Hornby Island Recycling Depot and Free Store.... As you will see, I use a lot of bikes (bicycles) in my work along with crows and ravens...they are a mainstay at the depot. thank you for visiting and for respecting my work.

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some key words...

‘found to be’...botanical curiosities of the waste-land...regrowth 1924 mah jong doubling tables 2010 2012 2018 Calendars 2019 calendar with Great Blue Heron 2020 Calendars 2023 digital collage calendar 2024 a caelo usque ad centrum African music alarm clocks Allium azalea hostage to beauty Amanita witch Hazel amber ankle boots antlers April April 2012 April calendar page Ardea herodias artichoke atlas Atticuss Rattus August 2012 calendar page bags and woe banjo barbie (handler) ferns barred owl bass bath salt labels beach dogs bear bears bed springs bee Bees beetles berry Beulah Creek Nursery bibliobits bicycle seats bike bike byrd skeleton bike drop outs bike helmets bike parts bike pile bikes biking blackberry leaves Blues Blues Guitar raffle Blues Odyssey Blues posters Blues Where ART Thou? Bob Cain photographer bobbins bone pile Book of Knowledge birds bookmarks boots botanical bower byrd bower byrds Bowery Joe Bowery Pete Bowery Pete and Sauce Brian briny tonic brodo broom brooms burners butterfly wings button buttons Byke Byrd Cards bykes byrd anatomy byrds byrds on air cacti calabash calendar Calendar 2025 Calendars canine shadows car parts carburetors cards caterpillars Celtic silver amulet charts chaz dj cheese graters Cherokee cherub CHFR CHFR fm chicken childhood chili peppers Christmas cards christmas fair christmas plant chuffers Cinco de Mayo circumpolar peoples Cirque Cloaked Hosta clogs clothesline coffee makers coffee pot collage coloured pencils colours comix ad copper copper pipe corvid corvids counter culture Crankspunk crows curiosity cyclopedal seat pods cyclopedal wort debris navigators December calendar deer Denman Christmas Craft Fair depot denizen Diane Ackerman dictionary digital collage digital print dinner plates DJs dobro Dog of Annie - retired dogs doll hands doll head dolls Dorothy Parker dress form Drift Beasts Drift Whales dropouts drums dryer vents dubCrow dubCrow with the brodo dubcrows dumpster Dux Egg egg beater electrical cords electrical debris electrical shorts electrical wiring Erma events poster fabric face paint faire signs Fall Fall Fair Fall Faire faraway lands Farmers Market February feliz navidad Ferns Fernwort papers fiddle fiddle flower fiddles fingers Firefighter volunteer Firefighter Volunteers Firefighters first photoshop print fish nets fishing lure fishing lures fleur de fiddle flora navidad flower child free store treasures freestore fridge backs frost Garden creatures garden gnomes garden hose garden hoses gardener gauges Giro gloves golf clubs good copy gourd grass Grassy point great blue heron ground birds guitar gumboots hat heat diffuser helmet Herbal re dux Herring fest Art Show Call for Entry Herring Fest posters Hidden beach hidden pools hinges holiday exhibit honey bees Hornby Island Hornby Island Blues Hornby Island Blues Society Hornby Island Christmas Craft Faire 2013 Hornby Island Farmers Market Hornby Island Recycling depot Horse Latitudes horsetail girl hosta leaves hosta lisa hostas hot plates hot spot lures house concert hung out to dry ice skate Incremental grass iris Island Art Gallery group show island gallery Island Gallery show January John Donne Jua Jua- jua byrd junko Junkus Junkus grass Junkyard blues junkyard byrd dog junkyard byrds Junkyard Byrds Market Booth Junkyard Byrds Sunbeam Mixedmaster Volunteer Fire Fighting Brigade and All Purpose Rescue Unit kitchen stuff knife holders Kooks Lady slipper lily lampshade Langmuir Luggage lawn chair bits lights Little Britches louvers love byrds low hanging fruit mah jong many hats Maple frost traveler Maple frost with witch hazel light maple leaves March marginalia mariposas Mark Twain may 2012 melon mesh metal buttons metal tank meteor microwave glass mixer model train track moldy book mona lisa eyes mosaic mournful palm muffin tins music appreciation mysterious blue beetle national geographic navigators new year's eve New Years 2015 Newt Kash Hollow noel not hostas not pomegranate notebook sketches for jewelry notebooks revisited November objects photographed at the Freestore and depot. hoses October odds bodkins old halloween Ombromanie once more transformed I am orange Owls paintbrush handles paintings palet palm tree paper masks parasol ribs Past Imperfect pastels pattern pieces patterns pax paz peace peace in the hood Peace on Air peace on earth Pear pencil grass pencils Phillips loop frame bike philosopher phones plastics plugs plumb bob Poe poster design pots prints puma puma soles pumpkin pumpkins purples quail quandary of a dubcrow radio ram Rambeau raven ravens Rebecca West ReBoot recycle Recycled fabrics recycling depot reds reflections reflectors Reliable remote controls René Descartes René Discard RF signal generator Ride the Day rio Ristra Ristra made of bike lights and helmets Road Ode Roamin' squash rock me roofing rubber gloves Rudbeckia rulers runner beans running shoes rusty metal salamanders salvage santo Sand babies Sand painting leaf Sandalillia scarecrow scissors scissors and shears scrabble tiles scribbilarius seamstress seamstress dress form seamstress cards and posters season of colour Season of Unreason greeting card seasonal greeting cards seasons greetings and wishes secretary byrd sedum self portrait September calendar page sewing kits shadow pictures shirt shoe forms shoe stretchers shoes shonagranata Shonah shoon flower Shoon flower maior shovels shutters silver silver sandals skis and bows small is beautiful snowtires soles some new designs Sound Check spades spinning wheel flyer sports equipment square cards stand up bass Steamer steamer crow steamerii steamers Steppe Beyond stone sagas stove elements stranger on the shore Styrofoam head summertime sun gums sun shower sunbeam iron Sunbeam mixer sunflower sunflowers super fan Tales of the Drift Beasts tennis racquets textiles that's the spirit thatch Table top the Crow the dub crow The grater legged waffle byrd the steppe beyond The Word thimbles Thornton Burgess tiger tales tires tools toy guitar toy guitars train track train tracks transformation tales treasure of the Humble trikes trollinglures trunk trunk style housing turntable typewriter typewriter keys umbrella unNatural history unplugged upholstery needle upholstery needles valentine Van Morrison vandalism sucks Volunteers Voyageur folding bike c. 1970's ? waffle iron waffling crow Warrior seamstress washer - dryer dials washing machine wasps waste land water babies watercolours weather maps weigh scale where is it? whites why so serious? wild iris mahonia wild west Winged hosta wooden spoons worker bees worm menu wreath xalibu year of the rat yellow yo zipper zootrope

corvids

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education... Albert Einstein

once read...

"You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things... My own notes have been written off-hand: Though they describe what I saw—what appear’d to me—I dare say the expert ornithologist, botanist or entomologist will detect more than one slip in them." Walt Whitman, Specimen Days

“Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ”

Loren Eiseley...The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature.

"I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse."
Loren Eiseley The Night Country

“The truth is, however, that there is nothing very “normal” about nature. Once upon a time there were no flowers at all.”
Loren Eiseley The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature.

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know.

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.
Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
H.G. Wells

The Crow ~ I suppose he is the hardest lot that wears feathers. Yes, and the cheerfullest, and the best satisfied with himself. He never arrived at what he is by any careless process, or any sudden one; he is a work of art, and "art is long"; he is the product of immemorial ages, and deep calculation; one can't make a bird like that in a day.
Mark Twain - Following the Equator

Absurdity ~ There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

Thomas Henry Huxley (letter to Charles Kingsley May 5, 1863)

Grass

No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies...

Robert Louis Stevenson

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat

Ambrose Bierce (July 24, 1842 - January 11, 1914)

“Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.”
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

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