Paintings and drawings that document artist Marty Baird’s experience of the waters in several North Carolina Rivers and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Marty Baird’s show at The Mahler is described on the website as It was a challenging school year, and now that summer is here I will try again to make more time for this blog.īut speaking of Raleigh nature! We have three wonderful art shows that feature a spectacular range of takes on the relationship between people and nature, and I thought I would kick off my Raleigh Nature comeback with an art column. And our new chickens have lifted the gardening into a whole new level. Severely limited in screen time many days, I can always find relief from my tinnitus and relaxing pleasure in tending our garden, which we have converted to mixed herb, flower, and food crops. I’m posting about that work at Pecans and Mistletoe, a project blog which has taken on a life of his own. As I have learned to manage my disease and its triggers, I have also become fully engrossed in work related to Raleigh Nature but not what I want on the blog: urban agriculture and the movement toward local sustainable farming in the area. Marty Baird's show at The Mahler documents experiences of NC waters.Ī personal post as I approach a new era of the blog: moving it toward my book, The Natural History of Raleigh, and recovering from the sabbatical of sorts imposed by other interests, my school year and most of all Meniere’s Disease, which is a non-lethal but incurable inner ear condition which has hampered all my work for the past year.
Birds have a presence that enters our lives: we take them for granted and yet we do observe and react to them, and they frame the audial background of our day in ways we hardly realize. I also have to add this lovely image from an older bird show – Susan Toplikar’s show in 2008, based on notebooks of bird sketches she created while medically homebound. Treescapes that create an environment for Attracting Birds.Īs if these shows weren’t enough synergistic art for Triangle birds, Adam Peele has a show entitled Raleigh Is For The Birds at Design Box. Also included are soundscapes, skyscapes and This most recent rendition is a collection of visual poems about the birdĮncounters in residential landscapes of two historic neighborhoods in Personal bird encounters in collage paintings, photography and recordings. Partners bibliographic inspirations with the artist’s expressions of
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“ Attracting Birds: Sounds and Skies,” is part of an ongoing series that She’s also the person who first informed me of the presence of coyotes inside Raleigh – Boylan Heights, specifically. Lee is a dear friend, a Bain artist who got me involved in that project, and a wonderful artist whose bird art was shown in the last couple of years at the Cameron Village Library. Dress for the weatherĪnd meet in front of the Local Histories exhibition building entrance,Ĭloser to home, Lee Moore’s show about birds opens Friday, March 4 at the Museum of Natural Sciences Nature Art Gallery.
Participants are encouraged to bringīinoculars if they have them for bird watching.
State University will lead a walk around Chapel Hill listening for,Īnd identifying, bird calls. Edna Metz Wells Park, an excellent central raleigh birding spotĪrtist Julie Thomson and Biology graduate students from North Carolina
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