Monday, March 31, 2014

Chicken from Hell

Pictured is the skeleton of Anzu wyliei, an 11-foot-long dinosaur that resembles a huge chicken. 
 Pittsburgh paleontologist Matt Lamanna is the lead author on a study of the species published last week.

"He probably did look like a giant, really freaky chicken," said Lamanna, assistant curator of the Carnegie Museum,  
who spent nine years studying the animal and can't help but think of it when he now eats chicken wings.


Thursday, March 27, 2014

Pasque


Prairie Crocus on 03/26. The first wildflowers of the season!

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Birthday

Leaves, Agnes Martin, Acryclic and Graphite on Canvas, 72 x 72", 1967


Agnes Martin, March 22, 1912 - December 16, 2004



Thursday, March 20, 2014

Vernal Equinox

The Death of James Lee Byars, James Lee Byars, Gold Leaf, Crystals & Plexiglass, Dimensions Variable, 1982/1994


You don't want to hear the story
of my life, and anyway
I don't want to tell it, I want to listen

to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.


-Mary Oliver



Saturday, March 8, 2014

Another Long Journey Home

Sandhill Crane (originally misidentified and titled Whooping Crane, Young) by John James Audubon, Aquatint Engraving, ~39" x 26", c. 1827 - 1838.

Welcoming Sandhill Cranes to Colorado on their journey north,
to their breeding grounds in the greater Yellowstone area.