April 20, 2008


For Alek and India

(and other owl fanciers). Lori Pickert’s comment on Deron’s Kottke interview led me to her Camp Creek blog.

This is the owl.

Check out the kids’ drawings here.

posted by Sheila Ryan in animals, art, education, nature 

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9 Responses to “For Alek and India”

  1. India on April 20th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    OH! MY! GOD! SO! CUTE!

  2. Sheila Ryan on April 20th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    Once you’ve recovered from admiring the little screech owl (I know — it took me a while), look at the first of the kids’ drawings and tell me whether it doesn’t remind you of Sendak’s Max in his wolf costume.

  3. Daryl Scroggins on April 20th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    Yes I see the Sendak connection, Sheila. Some of the drawings also remind me of those done by the poet Kenneth Patchen. He did some great stuff.

  4. Sheila Ryan on April 20th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    Oh, yes, Daryl! I recognize the kinship with Patchen in some of these.

  5. India on April 20th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    I’m sorry, I have eyes for nothing but the owl.

  6. Sheila Ryan on April 20th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    And he or she for you.

  7. Amy Mabli on April 21st, 2008 at 9:33 am

    (in my pet baby talk voice) That is a sweet little baby!

  8. Cooper Renner on April 21st, 2008 at 10:25 am

    Great drawings!

  9. Sheila Ryan on April 21st, 2008 at 10:35 am

    A Flickr photo pool based on Camp Creek art lessons also features some fine drawings. (Seven-year-old Gracie’s drawing of a stuffed bison at the Arch museum ["of Westward Expansion"] in St. Louis rocks!)

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