Category Archives: inventions

Binoculars…bugspray…sketchbook?

Posted on November 20, 2011 by

If you want to make a birder laugh, pull out your Altoids tin, and instead of offering a mint, use it to paint a bird. That’s how I spent five days at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival in Harlingen, … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure!, Art, bird art, birding, birds, Diversions, Drawing, field sketching, Food, inventions, Nature, nature journaling, painting, rainforest, Sketching, travel, tropics, Wildlife | 21 Comments

Okie Ingenuity and An Armful of Yellow Fever

Posted on October 7, 2008 by

I’ve just come back from getting my shots- in my right arm is typhoid, in my left, yellow fever. Right above my left elbow are hepatitis A and B. Later, I go back for tetanus and the second round of … Continue reading →

Posted in birding, birds, digiscoping, How-to, inventions, Oklahoma, rainforest | 15 Comments