Chat - Monday, May 7, 2012, A New Week Begins!

[amethyst]

GOOD MORNING ALL,


wishing everyone a great day and a great new week....



Hoping for Harmon's parents to show themselves very soon!

[Naturegal]

ALCOA-TAKEN YESTERDAY, CAM DOWN TODAY..................SEQUOYAH-ONE SHOWED UP.........


CAROLINA PRINCESS............................


DECORAH-WAITING FOR BREAKFAST.................................................YESTERDAY.............


DELTA 2....................................


NCTC.....................................................................................OZARKS..................


SOONER LAKE......................................


WHITE ROCK-DON'T GET UPSET, THIS IS A REAL STUFFED ANIMAL THEY BROUGHT TO THE NEST

[wrightflyer]

Deb, great slide show! Beautiful country too!! 911 sadness.

and you found an eagle - how long did you follow him??

Have a good visit in whatever you do! (Did ES lose some weight??)

[Naturegal]

Cam just came on at Minnesota Bound and Harmon is alone in the nest, he looks fine.
Don't know if any adults showed up during the night.

[harpo516]

Visit the 2nd Topic at the IWS Eagle Forum to learn how you can help the bald eagles of the Channel Islands! We still have far to go ....

[Naturegal]

Deb - Beautiful promo and such special memories

[harpo516]

Good morning all

I have a few minutes before I have to be out the door

Hoping for the best for Harmon - will try to check back later

We're going to see my Mom today - she was moved to an Alzheimer's facility about 6 weeks ago and seems for the most part, to have settled well. This will be my first visit there ..... DD, ES and I are going. Then a little visiting to do with family and friends. Tomorrow DD, ES and I will be visiting some places that I've actually never been to here in OH - the Amish area in Millersburg and then a day at either Put In Bay or Kelly's Island --- hmmmm which one to go see.... then the 3rd day over to Toledo for some site seeing and shopping!

Anyway hope this finds everyone well, rested up from their weekend activities!

I'll check in from time to time (gotta luv smart phones)

Be well (be good)

[Naturegal]

Carolina "Princess" on the outside perch

[Artsy Mom]

Have great Monday Peeps


Painting by Deborah Ross

It's been pouring all night and this morning here hoping to get up to 16C/56F. It's only 9C/48F right now but by Thursday we get the heat back in the mid 70's F. Maybe my plants can get outside and stay there

[Artsy Mom]

Carole I felt bad that Harmon had to stay in the nest all night with no mombrella. It was quite cold and lots of thunder/lightning there over night his parents show up soon.

Deb thanks for showing us the Memorial for the 911 victims at the crash site. That must have been emotional

Good thing ES didn't need stitches If they know the glasses break easily they shouldn't even use them....that would be grounds for a lawsuit is anyone got seriously hurt

Smart phones are so intelligent, look what they can accomplish when someone knows how to use them. I'm looking forward to the next round of OH slideshows

[Naturegal]

Harmom peeping for Mom and Dad. He looks healthy, weather
is great so it's a waiting game. I'm not worried as the Raptor
Center is monitoring him and if it should be necessary, he will
be removed and placed in a facility.

[adklaurie]

Good morning Cruzers.

Had a great weekend at camp. Well - after all the cleaning was done of course.

I can report seeing a Northern Harrier, 2 adult bald eagles, one juvenile bald eagle and one turkey vulture, one muskrat and several birds, squirrels and chimpmunks.

DH and I left camp early yesterday - our camp neighbor's mom passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, so we wanted to be sure to go to the calling hours. We also made arrangements to meet up with them for dinner yesterday before the calling hours. Had a nice visit.

for Harmon. Hoping the parents come back.

No loony eggs yet.. .

Two baby chicks at the Maine nest 1. Hurray - First successful hatch in 5 years. I'm so happy for that nest.

Well I haven't caught up with all the posts so will have to find some time to go back and take a look see to find out what everyone has been doing since Thursday

Gotta get back to work, Last week of school for the students, finals going on, its so quiet around here you could hear a pin drop. . . .

[Artsy Mom]

Good Morning from the RTH nest

I'm so sleepy from all that chipmunk I just scarfed down



Mom tried to feed more pigeon but they are stuffed

[Artsy Mom]

Yesterday we went to the Winnipeg Art Gallery to view the Norman Rockwell Exhibition and what a treat it was

The Norman Rockwell Exhibition at the WAG

We arrived just minutes before a tour started which we went on followed by our own self guided audio tour. We were there for three hours and could have stayed longer but they were closing at 5:00PM.

We managed to sneak a few 's but were told pics weren't allowed so we had to stop.



The little boy in this image was supposed to be a Christmas Post cover...he has found a santa suit in the drawer of his parents bedroom. The editor at the Post did not run it until after Christmas because he didn't want to upset America's kids. The story accompanying it was that the mother said Santa left it there so it could be dry cleaned



The main room held every single Saturday Evening Post cover Norman Rockwell ever painted hung in decades.



Period furniture and furnishings lent an authentic atmosphere. I loved those comb back windsor chairs.



There was a special area for children to do art and one for taking a photo against a backdrop of The Saturday Evening Post cover.



The interesting thing is he was such a perfectionist he would often paint up to 18 full size versions of each cover until he was satisfied. Yes, every single one was a full sized oil painting. He had ongoing issues with his editor at the Post regarding content he was 'allowed' to depict and so after the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963 he left the Post after 47 years.

He led a very colorful life, had three wives, and often used his three sons as models in his paintings...bribeing them with quarters or the promise of a trip to FAO Schwartz to pick out a toy, if they would just stop complaining about holding a pose He was really a collector of all kinds of props to use in his depictions and once saw a farmer working in a field with a pair of worn, dirty pants on and traded him for his own clean trousers just to get them for a painting he was working on. His second wife Mary actually became very depressed over his drive for perfection and after her death he married a retired school teacher who encouraged him to paint 'political' events and social issues, as he had always wanted to do. During his entire 47 years at The Post he was never allowed to depict black American's other than in a service role.

One of these paintings was the renowned 'The Problem We All Live With' depicting the young black girl who had to be escorted to her school by US Marshalls while being pelted with tomatoes and taunted with racial epithets. That little girl was Ruby Bridges who spent her entire year alone in the classroom because the parents of the white children did not want her in the same class with their children. There was a video of this event accompanying the painting.

When Barack Obama requested the painting for the White House, even today, it was hung in a private area not open to the public because of a racist word prominent in the center of it.

Rockwell was also involved with the BSA painting their calendars for his entire lifetime beginning when he was just 17. There were many anecdotal comments about how concerned the BSA was about exactly how the scout looked in each painting. In one the scout was rescuing a young girl with her kitten from a flood. They didn't like that his pants looked unkempt because they were wet, so Rockwell changed them turning the pants into shorts.
This painting is depicted in a video at the end of the WAG link above.

There was an area with a 12 minute video of his life produced for this show and narrated by his son sculptor Peter Rockwell as were the audio tour vignettes.

American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell- part 1 (5:31)

American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell- part 2 (6:18)

All in all, a beautiful experience and we may just go back again

[Naturegal]

**UPDATE** We are monitoring Harmon along with the Raptor Center experts. We want to give the parents enough time to come back to the nest before we take any additional steps. At this time it's a waiting game. We ask that you please refrain from calling the Raptor Center for more information. We will update you with information as best we can. Until then, we thank you for your patience. Watch it all live at www.mnbound.com/live-eagle-cam