shades of Autumn

"It is far safer to wander in God's Woods

than to travel

on paved highways."

- John Muir

an antique dried mushroom with carved art

https://www.etsy.com/listing/191545792/antique-folk-art-mushroom-art-country?ref=tre-2724254551-8

vintage hay hook

https://www.etsy.com/listing/192755227/vintage-hay-hook-oak-handle-steel-hook?ref=tre-2724254551-16

"Listen...

With faint dry sound,

Like steps of passing ghosts,

The leaves, frost-crisp'd,

break free from the trees

and 

fall."

- Adelaide, 1878 - 1914; 

from November Night

https://www.etsy.com/listing/94581891/tree-of-life-silhouette-paper-cutout?ref=tre-2724254551-3

https://www.etsy.com/listing/112847266/fall-photograph-leaf-collage-nature?ref=tre-2724254551-11

https://www.etsy.com/listing/153054870/ombre-stud-earrings-geometrical-round?ref=tre-2724254551-4

"We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment

of animals."

- Immanuel Kant

https://www.etsy.com/listing/184597441/art-original-acrylic-painting-cat-female?ref=tre-2724254551-9

https://www.etsy.com/listing/117760330/squirrel-animal-art-print-watercolor?ref=tre-2724254551-15

"Look deep into Nature,

and then you will

understand

everything better."

- Albert Einstein

https://www.etsy.com/listing/119094557/fall-photo-8x12-print-cabin-in-the-woods?ref=tre-2724254551-14

https://www.etsy.com/listing/107311681/glass-bowl-wildflower-sunshine-orange?ref=tre-2724254551-1

https://www.etsy.com/listing/203573023/bird-paintingwatercolor-paintingoriginal?ref=tre-2724254551-2

https://www.etsy.com/listing/155996949/sunflower-groom-boutonniere-rustic?ref=tre-2724254551-13

"If you see no reason for giving thanks,

the fault lies in yourself."

- Minquass Indian proverb

https://www.etsy.com/listing/154639138/one-love-beadwork-hoops-beaded-earrings?ref=tre-2724254551-5

https://www.etsy.com/listing/155186063/little-orange-bird-on-vintage-small?ref=tre-2724254551-7

https://www.etsy.com/listing/190870977/vintage-1960s-hat-vintage-black-and?ref=tre-2724254551-10

"Eat oranges

Hear the larks

Wait on the sun."

- John Muir

Autumn's Faire Maid

paper collage painting from all junk mail and recycled magazines

www.collagepaperpainting.etsy.com

'Tangerine Tango hand beaded, original design necklace

https://www.etsy.com/listing/163092672/tangerine-tango-beaded-necklace-metal?ref=tre-2724254551-12

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All the items are in this treasury list:

shades of autumn

You can find it here:

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The Enormous Elephant alphabet time

Caution:

Some photos are graphic in nature

E is for Elephant

by Gregory Colbert

lifeisbeautifulthatway.blogspot.com

"She owned the road

as an elephant owns the veldt

and like a big blue elephant

moved with massive grace

and dignity."

- David Drake, author

www.reimaginationprints.etsy.com

elephant in San Diego Zoo

mixed media sculpture, Israel

www.OrnaArtHeart.etsy.com

"Elephants, it turns out,

are surprisingly stealthy."

- Thomas French, Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives

- but maybe not as babies!!!

E is for Elephant print

www.CaseyGirard.etsy.com

www.lewfoster.etsy.com

www.JoArtyJo.etsy.com

"Elephants can sense danger.

They're able to detect an approaching 

tsunami or earthquake before it hits."

 - Jennifer Richard Jacobson, Small as an Elephant

collage by www.AcorntoZebraCollage.etsy.com

stained glass coloring page

courtesy Dover Books

pendant by MissingPiecesStudio.etsy.com

"We admire elephants in part

because they demonstrate what we consider 

the finest human traits:

empathy

self-awareness

social intelligence.

But the way we treat them puts on display 

the very worst 

of human behavior."

- Graydon Carter

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/elephants.html

credit: unknown

Shriner's Circus, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

www.albuquerquer.about.jpeg

Color-Your-Own.com

Asian Elephants in India

www.worldwildlife.org

elephant in Indian Zoo

page by John Platt

www.blogs.scientificamerican.com

Beating an elephant into submission for tourism

Thailand Elephant Tourism

www.asianelephantstoday.com

"Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal

on the face of the Earth.

They are creative,

altruistic

and kind."

- Ingrid Newkirk

vintage elephant head clip, courtesy Dover

www.melstepp01.wordpress.com

courtesy Dover

www.keepbusy.net

"It's estimated that across Africa

100 elephants are killed for their tusks

every day.

It takes nothing more than simple math

to get to what that adds up to

in a year,

and it's a distressing figure."

- Graydon Carter

Sept, 2012

www.burrard-lucas.com

confiscated tusks

www.ripoffreport.com

elephant in the grass

www.rgbstock.com

'Elephant Love'

www.evilwerewolfpirate.deviantart.com

a road roller crushes confiscated elephant tusks

worth $10 million, 

Quezone City, Metro Manila, 6-2013

www.globalnation.inquirer.net

"I don't know how many lions and leopards 
I've shot.
I've shot two elephants, which is enough -
never again.
It's a melancholy and moving thing 
to hunt an elephant.
It's like shooting an old man."

- Wilbur Smith

www.vet.cornell.edu

www.en.wikipedia.org

"Elephants love reunions.
They recognize one another
after years and years of separation
and greet each other 
with wild, boisterous joy.
There's bellowing and trumpeting,
ear flapping and rubbing.
Twines entwine."

- Jennifer Richard Jacobson,
Small as an Elephant

greeting at a mudbath

photo credit: Sigfried Wallach, c. 1998

www.netshake.com

Mila greets Mary, after being alone in a circus for 30 years.

Elephants don't forget.

San Diego Zoo

www.dailymail.co.uk

endangered species Sumatran Elephants greet each other

www.glbrain.com

Shirley and Jenny meet again after being apart for 27 years.

Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary

www.greenme.it

"It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant.

It... is not heroic,

and certainly it is not easy;

it is just one of those preposterous things 

that men do

like putting a dam across a great river,

one tenth of whose volume could engulf

the whole of mankind

without disturbing the domestic life

of a single catfish."

- Beryl Markham, West with the Night

baby elephant trying to wake dead mother

thesun.co.uk

Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

www.bangngangang.com

"One hundred Pounder", Mozambique,

presumably refers to each tusk.

www.newswatch.nationalgeographic.com

"Killing wildlife and trading in illegal rhino horn and elephant tusks are only misdemeanors in Mozambique.

Game wardens get $96 per month.

One elephant tusk is worth a minimum of $10,000 

in China or Korea, as an aphrodisiac."

- Sam Sloan

elephant coloring page

credit unknown

"I meant what I said

and I said what I meant -

An elephant's faithful,

one hundred percent!"

- Dr. Seuss

en.wikipedia.org

African elephants 'Follow the Leader"

www.elephant-world.com

I hope today's blog has inspired you,

touched you

and convinced you to be more active

in the preservation of these beautiful

giant beasts.

Bizarro elephant cartoon 2-19-2007

othernationsjustice.org.com

elephant trunk

www.listverse.com

'til next time,

inkspired

www.inkspired.etsy.com

www.collagepaperpainting.etsy.com

www.inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com

and on pinterest: K.Kloberdans