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examining what makes an Aspen leaf flutter in the wind ~ Oh they are like little kites on tethers ~

With a delightful sense of wonder in the smallest things,

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often infused with her sense of humor … if he was a king, was she the queen?

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blue capped vireo

She mused that who she was sketching might be interested in her too.

Her hard-won yet easy watercolor style and skill

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gave her the courage to splatter red paint for the bittersweet vine
all over this magnificent bird

P1100750Countless sketches, watercolors and paintings
express her love and kinship with the New England seaside.
Mum

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She has left us with her unique and creative way of seeing the world.

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~ Fare Well ~

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The female Osprey still sitting on eggs we hope

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Rails Calls in reeds But …..

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Lots of Fin Slapping by 1 whale. Right Under the Boat!!

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P1170778“Salt” & Baby Breaching His/Her mother is right near 10′

Main food for whales is the Lance. A fish 8″ long as big around as your fore finger

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Just Because this is Drawn on the return to Plymouth Harbor in Rolling seas Bouncing Speedily in the 35 knots winds. I wish I could do the animals above and below water justice anyway

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Aboard the “Capt. John” Plymouth ~ 25 mph at 8:30 am

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Capt. John Boats Still in Business today! (January, 2014)image

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Harbormasters house on Dock  “Where did June Go?”

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Hello Everyone, Thank you for coming to my mother’s website for so long. This blog began in June 2009, about 4 1/2 years ago and I still have many images to post. I am going to update with a new image from her sketchbook Every 2nd Monday instead of Every Monday. I hope you still come by to see inside her wonderful world. She takes enormous delight to know that her sketchbook have been seen bu thousands of people all over the world!

Friday Morning Birding Group ~ 06/23/89   Rose Pagonia

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Bartholomew’s Cobble
The Soft Blurr of early Spring

when you don’t know what is really there

but the promise of Life

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Fallen Log with jewel weed growing on it

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P1160381into the sunshine again this year after a Rainy Day yesterday Getting Here

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1 male, 2 female

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Western Grebe in with Redneck flock, Hull Cohasset side of Nantasket Beach ~ low tide around 9am.

[sorry, Redneck grebe, about taking a cut in your neck.. let’s pretend a little wave covered it up a Bit]

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over 1065 Ring Necked Ducks

then lots of ruddys, wigeon &  coot

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Off of Cohasset Horbor

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South Shore Bird Club 11/05/88

Read the 2 news articles about the reconstruction of this lighthouse in the next post (posted Monday 19)

 

 

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Button Bush by road toward lighthouse

2 Rusty Blackbirds too in same area

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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3 King Eiders ~

Happy Holidays to you all!

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Thank you for coming to Mum’s site, she is so thrilled that so many people have come see her sketches!

 

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FMBG ~ Sept. 2, 1990

A Grand Green Backed Heron with his neck stretched for a change and crest up when he landed

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This is the Entire Painting of the Header for Mum’s blog

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Black Grass, I don’t think I have seen before….

and further on a Black Turn!!!!!!!!

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FMBG ~ August 3, 1990

A Least Turn trying to get a relunctant female to take his offering of a beautiful shiney mummychug orkilly fish

Breeding Plumage Bonapart's

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Sketches

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Saturday

3rd cliff walk. David Clapp our leader.

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… yes, David, those Roseate terns have a tinge of pink on the breast – Mr. Holmes agreed.

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and a Piping Plover tapping his foot to excite a piece of food

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July 25, 1990

A whale watch out of Plymouth near Stanley Point

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This is “Arrow” so named by the arrow shaped white scar on it’s fin. This year she is not pregnant, they birth every other year

We also saw 2 Leache’s (or Wilson’s) Storm petrels, also a couple of laughing gulls

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July 20, 1990 ~ FMBG

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Immature hooded merganser preening

lesser yellow legs, killdeer

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Red Admiral butterfly on David’s finger

piping plovers and an immature common tern

piping plover running as fast as his little bow legs can take him

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FMBG ~ June 15, 1990

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muskrat taking vegetation home from the island.

muskrat-june 15, 1990 a crab spider

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Sleeping Black Bellied Plover coming into breeding plumage, and a just awakened Dunlin coming into plumage also.

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Friday Morning Birding Group ~ May 4, 1990

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Two red necked Grebes off the Glades, wood anemones and trout lily.

April 27, 1990
trout lily Wood Anemone

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9 am ~ October 6, 1989

9 am ~ October 6, 1989

the rain has stopped ~ yellow birds in a tree ~ green bush

Scituate, Massachusetts, behind PJ’s

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