Where did our Great Egrets go? I’m asking that question this year because they are a familiar summer time bird at the Falls of the Ohio. Visitors are usually treated to their presence from May to October or for however the warm weather lasts. Usually, you can see them along the water’s edge fishing along [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Great Egrets
Posted in animals, art and environment, birding, birds and birding, ecosytem, Falls of the Ohio, fresh water, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, nature, nature photography, Ohio River, watershed, tagged birds, black vultures, Falls of the Ohio State Park, great egrets, ornithology, unusual weather on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Autumn Shorebirds at the Falls
Posted in Absurd, animal art works, animals, Art, art and environment, birding, birds and birding, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, Falls of the Ohio, fresh water, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, nature, nature photography, Ohio River, Originality, public art, recycled art, sculpture, Styrofoam, watershed, tagged birding, birds, dowitcher, Falls of the Ohio State Park, plover, recycled art, sandpiper, shorebirds, Styrofoam on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
September is the month that the smaller shorebirds begin their migrations through our area towards warmer southern climates. We see a variety of different species at the Falls of the Ohio. Here is one impromptu tribute to them made from polystyrene foam. This one is a Styro-Sandpiper dragging its wing in mock injury. Among the materials I used [...]
The Amateur Archeaologists
Posted in Absurd, Art, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, Falls of the Ohio, fresh water, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, nature, Ohio River, Originality, public art, recycled art, sculpture, Styrofoam, watershed, tagged archeaologists, Art, climate change, found art, material evidence, recycled art, satire, sculpture, Styrofoam on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With summer drawing to a close and the weather being so moderate, our Styro-couple has decided to visit the fossil beds. The water is low and there are always unusual and interesting things that have been left behind by the previous inhabitants of this land. On occasion you can find some museum worthy artifacts. Let’s [...]
The Sandman
Posted in Absurd, animals, Art, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, nature, nature photography, Ohio River, Originality, public art, recycled art, sculpture, Styrofoam, watershed, tagged Art, children's story, cicada, creativity, Falls of the Ohio, found object art, sandman, sculpture, site specific art, Styrofoam on September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The day my son Adam made his dragon, this is what I came up with. I call him the Sandman and I based him upon the nocturnal visitor familiar in children’s stories. As Adam and I walked along the river, I found the blue plastic sand shovel and the idea for this piece fell into [...]
CONNECT Event at Bernheim
Posted in Art, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, Louisville, Kentucky, nature, Originality, public art, sculpture, tagged art and nature, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, CONNECT festival, fire sculpture, interdisciplinary dialogue, outdoor festival, public art, telescopes, video projections on September 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
On an absolutely perfect night, my family and I attended the CONNECT event at the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. Bernheim is located in Clermont, KY about twenty or so miles south of Louisville. The event was the park’s attempt at creating a festival that centered on promoting a creative dialogue between artists, scientists, naturalists, [...]
Ohio River Sea Life
Posted in Absurd, animals, Art, art and environment, collections, creativity, ecosytem, Falls of the Ohio, fresh water, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, nature, nature photography, Ohio River, Originality, public art, recycled art, unusual collection, watershed, tagged Art, flotsam and jetsam, octopus, Ohio River, photography, plastic toys, river finds, sea life, seahorse on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The inspiration for this post comes from a couple newspaper articles that appeared in the Courier-Journal a few years ago. Seems somebody found a dead, but genuine octopus at the Falls of the Ohio! Since our fair area is over a thousand miles away from the ocean and its salty water this was quite a discovery. How did it [...]
Adam’s Dragon
Posted in Absurd, animal art works, animals, Art, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, Falls of the Ohio, fresh water, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, nature, nature photography, Ohio River, Originality, public art, recycled art, sculpture, Styrofoam, unusual collection, tagged Art, creativity, dragon, driftwood, Falls of the Ohio, father and son, nature, play, Styrofoam on September 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
You can tell by looking at this photo that Adam is the life of the party! I hand my son the camera and the first picture he takes is of himself! The two of us went to the Falls the other day. We hiked around and then made some art together. Here are a few [...]
Fossil Bed Excursion, Part III
Posted in Absurd, Art, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, Falls of the Ohio, fresh water, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, nature, nature photography, Ohio River, Originality, public art, recycled art, sculpture, Styrofoam, watershed, tagged Falls of the Ohio, fossil beds, found art, photo essay, recycled art, site specific art, skyline of Louisville on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With the power plant behind us, I retrace my steps in the sand along Goose Island. At the moment, there is shade. Once we venture back onto the fossil beds we may get momentary cover from a passing cloud. I stopped along the sand bank and made one more Styrofoam figure from materials found along the [...]
Fossil Bed Excursion, Part II
Posted in Absurd, Art, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, Falls of the Ohio, fresh water, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, nature, nature photography, Ohio River, Originality, public art, recycled art, sculpture, Styrofoam, watershed, tagged found object art, hike, photo essay, process art, river power plant on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having arrived at the “Falls” of the Falls of the Ohio State Park, I took materials I found along the way and made these two figures. There is less debris to pick from on this side of the fossil beds. Sometimes you just don’t find that right twig or element that you think will set [...]
