Greener Greens

Welcome!

Green

American green tree frog

Greener

‘Green Fairy’ Collage Art Doll original by inkspired 

Greenest!

Celebrations of the Catholic Saint Patrick are here!

It has become more and more

a celebration of all things 

Irish.

Vintage card

What makes me think of Ireland?

The color green!

What a bodacious color-

Green!

I love all things nature.

It is common for me to look to nature to find inspiration.

Let’s see what I can find...

Well, not quite what I was thinking.

Better!

 Green Iguana

Luna Moth 

Striped Tail Hummingbird

Photo By Chris Jimenez

Now there’s some green!

Many birds have beautiful green feathers...

Red-lored Amazon, Costa Rica
I think!

Livingstone’s Turaco
Photo cred: Pierre Chabot

Lesser Green Broadbill
Photo cred: Phil Liew


While Ireland has listed about 450 different species of bird that have visited her,
there are about 200 species that remain
regulars.

This is the greenfinch.
While perhaps not so brilliant green,
her colors seem to grow on me.

Greenfinch
Photo cred: Cesare Carloni

What else can we find for this
Green Celebration Day?

Something Irish,
Something Green
with a wee bit of
Something for
Saint Patrick...

(Okay, so poetry was not my top subject in school...)

SHAMROCKS!
and
IRISH BLESSINGS!

Here’s to you!
May you have a Greener Green 
St. Patrick’s Day!

‘Til next time,

Inkspired 

Outdoors beckonings

Shanti

'Peace' in the Hindi language, spoken in India

The outdoors is beckoning me.

Here are some of my dreams -

http://www.phenomegnome.etsy.com/

A beautiful garden oasis in my back yard...

Painted Rock art

http://www.beadedsaddle.etsy.com/

Longwood Gardens, PA I think

www.uwishunu.com

with lots and lots of flowers.....

www.howtogeek.com

a pattern re-worked for scherensnitte by inkspired

Monet, 1872

I might even find a few fairies...

vintage illustration

vintage illustration

I would love to have hummingbirds among my guests...

but of course all birds and animals will be welcome...

c.1917 vintage songsheet

courtesy of Indiana Music Library (website to the right of my blog)

a Great Blue Heron, courtesy Dover

as long as they are well behaved!

a sweet kitty waiting for his forever home

Cat Care Society, Lakewood, CO

But, as happens to many dreams,

my chores are getting louder in their demands for attention,

not least of this is a big 163 lb. Great Dane who is 'reminding' me

It's Dinner Time!

so, until another day....

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

http://www.collagepaperpainting.etsy.com/

Beautiful Birds

Good Day

c.1911

Well, it turns out I guess I have a stomach/intestinal bug.

sigh.

Been sleeping poorly, and have spent wayyyy

too much time in the bathroom.

When I feel better, I have to clean the corners of said bathroom.

I have dust bunnies that are about ready to take over the world....

I wanted to do a blog, but really don't feel too well,

so today's time will be about

Birds.

Probably not too much talky-talk.

However, I did find some wonderful pictures of a variety of birds.

In no particular order, and some I don't know the name of the birds, but

let's share them together -

Australian lorikeets

Birds sing after a storm;

why shouldn't people feel as free to delight

 in whatever remains to them?

- Rose Kennedy

Bath time



'Tweety-Bird', Warner Bros.



“Did you ever see an unhappy horse?

Did you ever see bird that had the blues?

One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because

they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”

…Dale Carnegie

steely vented hummingbird, Costa Rica

c.1869

 

a stork

 

Parrot Flowers

 my favorite Big Yellow Bird aka...Big Bird, Sesame Street

hummingbird http://www.englilsh-narixa.blogspot.com/

pigeon

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man

than the way in which they can build

and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

  ~Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays

c.1879

ruby throated hummingbird

Her wings beat approximately 53x per second.

Kate Greenaway poem and illustration

A scherensnitte I cut of doves and a tree.

You can see the fold line in the middle,

as I cut both halves at the same time.



That's it for today.

I hope I have made you smile today,

and find a little wonderment (is that a word? I like it.)

and a little awe of all the different kinds of God's creations in the bird world.

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com

http://www.inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com/

c.1917

Here is a rather simple scherensnitte pattern for you.

I'm cutting one that I intend to keep flat,

but the original pattern is for a tri-fold card

that fits into a standard business size envelope.

The first dashed line is for a mountain fold.

The second dashed line is for a valley fold.

from a Backstreet Orginal book, out of print