Migration

Its that time again ... The ducks are moving ... I stopped in at my office yesterday morning to send a quick email and when I looked out the window there were 7 or 8 wood ducks on the pond ... Swimming in the sun, diving, preening on the perch we leave there for them ... It was really nice ... I wish I had a better telephoto lens but Im not a National Geographic photographer so we go with what we have ... Anychoice, click the pictures to enlarge them and enjoy my backyard ducks ...
From the back door of my second floor office ... the golf hole off to the left .. this is a vernal (fishless) pool where black spotted salamanders (check them out; theyre 6" long) and wood frogs (they sound like ducks) breed. It drains as the leaves come on the trees and fills as they drop ...
We should all be so handsome ...

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Bookends Again

My kind of post ... I just went back to 10/22/07 and did a little cutting and pasting. Same deal this year. The party is on the 13th, 6-8 .. if its like the last one, it should be good ... This year my bookends above are called Identical Twins ... 2" solid steel on 3/8ths by 2.5" steel.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Dan Mosheim donates bookends to fundraiser at Mark Skinner Library

The Mark Skinner Library in Manchester, Vermont recently asked 25 local artists to donate a pair of bookends for a fundraiser/raffle that will take place on November 10th. Tickets are $5. each, or 5 for $20. Each ticket can be placed in the raffle box for the particular artists bookends that youd like to own. Proceeds will benefit the adult collection at the library. Tickets are available at the Mark Skinner Library and at The Northshire Bookstore as well as Factory Point and Chittenden banks. Or, if youre not going to be around, call the library at 802-362-2607. For my bookends, I visited the metal shop and whipped up a pair I called Bookends for David Smith in recycled chestnut and forged and welded steel. I had a blast. The party looks like it might be fun too. See you there.
My 2007 bookends , won in 2007, (fortunately), by my friend Cynthia Murphy
Click the photos to enlarge them ...
Good luck ...

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