There will be two ways to win. One mouse for winning the contest, another mouse for mentioning the contest (with a link) on your blog, so stay tuned, especially if you (or a friend) also have a blog...
OK, back to this week.
Meridee went hiking up near the Santa Fe ski hill with her friend and author Elizabeth Gilchrist.
They went a bit off the beaten track and encountered some strange structures. Each was made of many tree trunks assembled teepee style around a living tree. They look like they took some serious effort to make, and they kept finding more, ever larger ones the further into the woods they went.
They got a bit spooked and turned and left!
I went back there with Meridee for a look, and snapped a few pics. They really are a bit of a head scratcher.
As you can see they're quite large, completely impenetrable except for a doorway, have bits of chopped off log to sit on inside, and there's several of them.
After a few beers we decided we'd probably head back there on the summer solstice and see if there's any curious shenanigans going on, since our imaginations got the better of us while we wondered what they might all be about!
Any ideas? I'd love to hear them!
Sculpture news!
Here's Lee Wilson's mold making handiwork in progress for my tree frogs on a vine sculpture.
Hopefully we'll have that piece all finished up and photographed in a couple of months.
His artful molds look like abstract sculptures.
I've been working on a couple of other things, one of which will combine some elements I haven't seen done before.
Which probably means every one has done it, but I just haven't noticed!
I'm being a bit coy about it until it's further along, but I showed some of the elements to Lee who will be making my mold, pulling waxes, and what have you.
Here's Lee in 'action'.
I enjoy running things by him since he can suggest practical considerations to make them more efficiently.
If they can be done without infringing on the integrity of my idea, I'll go for it.
In this case, he suggested slightly thickening the sides of a rectangular part to ensure the bronze will flow more freely and create fewer failed castings, which I took care of.
With many years of experience in all aspects of the casting process, he is a great source of 'insider knowledge', and I like take advantage of it whenever I can!
OK, what's the mystery critter in this pic? I snapped it at a nearby gardening nursery that has a pond...
(by the way, this is not the contest, that's next week!)
So don't forget to stay tuned for next weekend's contest announcement...
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5 comments:
looks like a gila monster. but, i have never seen one under water:) amy floyd
Stripey, true. And very comfy under water. What could it be...
We have structures similar to those on Oregon beaches - made of driftwood. Pretty clever how they are fitted together, until the tide washes them away.
If I had to guess...I would say a tiger salamander. It looks large enough to be an adult, so it wouldn't spend much time in the water. It might have been searching for a mate though. They breed in the water because the babies are completely aquatic. They look more like water dogs when they're young.
I saw a whole shoal of the ghostly looking 'water dog' versions with their feathery gills when I was standing on a little jetty in another pond. They ranged from several inches to over a foot!
Mike Masse saw a tiger salamander in a ditch on some land where he keeps bees.
The one in the picture is about a foot long.
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