lackadaisical

lack·a·dai·si·cal  -carelessly lazy. lacking liveliness or zest. 

that's such a cool sounding word.  has a kind of twang to it. it flows.
definitely sounds more upbeat than the meaning.
just saying that word,  makes me feel cheery. enthused.

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for some reason, i just haven't been very creatively motivated lately.

i have all these skulls outside...just begging to be worked on...in an artistic kind of way. 

and they sit. and sit. through the rain...and the sun...and the rain again.

oh well, at least Mother Nature is doing her thing and cleaning them!

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i DID make two vial necklaces. 

one with the tiny bones i dissected from owl pellets and found cardinal feathers.

and the other with assorted small armadillo bones.

BUT i don't really consider these to be very creative.

suede lace. add wooden beads. screw an eyelet to cork. fill vial. seal.

presto!  fini!

added them to my etsy shop.

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the weather's been kind of dismal. dreary. cloudy. wet. 

i don't mind.  i like it when it's gloomy! dark. foggy. rainy. cold.

and what does this kind of weather bring?

FUNGI!!!!

i know. i know.   i hear ya'!  "OH NO, not  MORE fungi?!"

i just can't resist. oooh! oooh!  each one more unique than the one before.
snapping pictures of all the varied textures and colors...

the unusual...oddly shaped...

MUSHROOMS...LICHENS !
they're here today. gone tomorrow. 

i took too many pictures. as usual. i'll try to weed through them...

post a few now.  more...some other time...

"There  is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life."  

~ Colin Fletcher, The River 

check out  Fun Facts About Fungi !

decomposers.  can cure or kill.

spores galore.

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we have dead trees...scattered all over...

a woodpecker's paradise.

here's a Pileated...pecking away out back...

hard to get a good picture. they move around so fast!

...and a Red Shouldered Hawk out front...

this weekend i'm determined to make time for my bone collection.

sort them. clean them. maybe do a new Bone Doodle!

"Ideas are the roots of creation."

~Ernest Dimnet

'til next time...stay cool. be safe. keep wandering.

:] laura

 

Love is being stupid together.
~Paul Valery

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Happy Valentine's Day!
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, 

so I never have to live without you.
~Winnie the Pooh
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((saturday morning. up early. before dawn. cruising cyberspace.
wandering through all the blogs i follow...and dropping by new ones.
see ya then))  :]

yard textures...mostly...

as i was walking around the yard...

trying to spot the owls...

i began to notice all the patterns, shapes...and designs...scattered around.

things i see every day...but for some reason...

that day i wanted to touch everything.  feel.

oOo

BUT, as i was pondering this...shadows were being cast on the ground...

all around me.

i looked up. vultures. circling...again!

they must be waiting to see if any of the bones i brought home,

had meat left on them. 

nope.  not usually.

here's my outside bone table...

where the bones remain while nature works on 'em.

oOo

OK...so the vultures flew off...in their circular pattern...

searching someplace else...

and i started thinking again about all the yard textures!

It is a great art to saunter.   

~Henry David Thoreau 

so i went to get my camera...

 hard. rock.

 colorful, veiny oak leaf hydrangea

(ok, so veiny isn't a word. full of veins.)

 dry. broom.

 prickly. cactus.

 soft. fluffy. feathers.

 hard. rusted. metal.

 sutures. bone. deer skull.

 bumpy. sea urchin.

 grainy. ant hill.

holy. leaf. well, i wasn't praying to this leaf...so, actually it's a holey leaf.

(although i guess you could say all things in nature are sacred...)

porous. limestone.

 strong. tough. cement.

 swirly. wood.

 crunchy. leaf.

soft. hairy. squirrel tail.

(wondering how i took such a close-up of this little critter's tail?

i stumbled across a dead one in the front yard. 

now how many times have you actually seen a dead squirrel 

that was anywhere except in the road? 

the only thing we can figure is that it got hit by a car...

ran into our yard...and that's where it took its last breath.

it's a wonder that it hadn't been carried off by the hawks or owls!

we buried it.)

 hard. headed. (just kidding sam!)

downlike. sam's balding crown.

ok...so this is where sam's head hair went...to his face!

cushy. wiry-ish. (i love making up my own words!)

shadowy. fleeting. me.

Be kind to your shadow.  

~Rebecca Lawless 

oOo

and one more for the road.

we DID spot the owls. 

they have about 5 different trees they've taken a liking to.

so if they're in the yard...

we can usually see them perching on one of their favorite branches.

that's it for now. stay cool. be safe. wander.

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.  

~Tom Brown, Jr. 

laura  :]