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About the Motmot
Exploring the natural world with pencil and paper from high atop a one-story bungalow in the middle of Oklahoma.
Category Archives: inventions
Sketch of the Day: Copenhagen Cargo Bike
Posted in Art, bicycles, Copenhagen, Culture, Denmark, Diversions, Family, field sketching, inventions, Sketching, travel, urban sketching
Tagged bicycles, Cargo bikes, city drawing, city living, Copenhagen, Denmark, drawing, kids, travel, Urban Sketching
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Binoculars…bugspray…sketchbook?
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
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Okie Ingenuity and An Armful of Yellow Fever
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
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