Blogger Patricia Youngquist is an author and a photographer. Her recent e-book, BIRD TALES, is interactive and includes the Blue jay featured above. Prior works include versions of WORDS IN OUR BEAK, where the stories are narrated by Cam, a female cardinal. Additionally, some of her photographs have been licensed by Fine Art America to reproduce as wall art and on to an array of surfaces for various products! Do view both side-bars for specific details on all of this.
Very grateful, honored and humbled that reader MK took the time to write such a heartfelt piece!
She purchased the iBook version of BIRD TALES, but for those of you who don't use Apple products, this interactive digital book is also available on Amazon.
I first announced info re TLT here on Blogger (in the beginning of October) and now this book is due out next week!
Stay tuned!
A few weeks ago, Juan V was here and arranged pumpkins and squashes which I received from a program at the Greenmarket.
They are included in the photo on the left (which features one of my urban hedges aka garden shelving).
However, this past Wednesday he added something to the "installation."
Check out the photo at the right. Can you tell what's new?
By the way my garden is the setting for all versions of my books that have "Words In Our Beak" in their title.
Juan was here again today and made an "adjustment" to what is on the bottom shelf.
Check out the photo directly below and see if you notice the chsange that was made.
BIRD TALES is available in the Apple Bookstore and it is alao available on Amazon.
Words In Our Beak Volume Three is available on Amazon or you can get it wherever hardcover books are sold by giving the bookseller the ISBN number which is 0996378545.
As you may know, dear reader, National Pumpkin Day, Mourning doves and Thoreau are all topics I've covered on this blog.
One dreary cold day (this past winter) I caught a glimpse of a lone Mourning dove having a conversation with a male House sparrow while they perched on the edge of a bird bath which was mostly filled water.
Another male House sparrow cocked his head to eavesdrop.
[Both of these bird types are included in all of my books which have Words In Our Beak in their title and they are also featured in BIRD TALES. Info re all of these books can be found by clicking here.]
According to a page within Wikipedia, "The verb eavesdrop is a back-formation from the noun eavesdropper ("a person who eavesdrops"), which was formed from the related noun eavesdrop ("the dripping of water from the eaves of a house; the ground on which such water falls")."
This source goes on to say, in bygone years, "an eavesdropper was someone who would hang from the eve of a building so as to hear what is said within. The PBS documentaries Inside the Court of Henry VIII (April 8, 2015) and Secrets of Henry VIII’s Palace (June 30, 2013) include segments that display and discuss "eavedrops," carved wooden figures Henry VIII had built into the eaves (overhanging edges of the beams in the ceiling) of Hampton Court to discourage unwanted gossip or dissension from the King's wishes and rule, to foment paranoia and fear, and demonstrate that everything said there was being overheard; literally, that the walls had ears."
Not to be outdone by the House sparow who was listening intently to the chirping of the Mourning dove and the other House Sparrow, I cocked my head to eavesdrop, for whenever I hear what birds have to say, I learn something!
Little did we know it would be the last time I celebrated mine with her, for she died the following June two months before my birthday in the year 2015.
Donna was the office manager at The Church of the Blessed Sacrament (my parish).Over the many years I knew her, I was honored and privledged to be a guest at a number of the Christmas parties she held in her home and to go with her to various events happening in NYC.Moreover, she came to a couple of exhibitions that featured my photography. In the next picture, Donna can be seen with a yellow sweater over her shoulders and yours truly is standing behind her.
We are at an opening for a 2002 art exhibition that I was featured in (with two other artists who are not in this photograph) at The New York Gallery Building (on West Fifty-Seventh Street in NYC). The art piece which is behind us is one of my kaliedoscopic images titled Rocks By Strawberry Fields.
At the time our picture was taken, my kaliedoscopic photographs could only be printed on photographic papers as wall art or rendred on to note-cards.
Howeover, over the years, with advancement in printing processes, my kaliedoscopic works (as well as all of my other photographs) can be rendered (by Fine Art America AKA FAA) in an aray of sizes on to various surfaces for wall art including, acrylic, art paper, canvas, metal, poster-paper and wood. FAA also has framed options available and they can render the images on to note-cards.
I think Donna might've found it cool that FAA can print my kaliedoscopic images (and my other ones) on to items for personal use such as totes, week-ender bags, pouches, note-books, stickers, cell-phone cases and jigsaw puzzles; as well as face-masks.
In any event, I'm certainly thinking of Donna as well as those family members who survived her including her husband Tony as well as her son, Bryan, who shortly after her death, requsted that I create a video in honor of memory, which I did and it can be viewed on Vimeo as well as You Tube.
However, this past Wednesday we discovered my autumn anemones are in bloom again.
Some of them grow in a container that is on the ledge surrounding my garden and we altered the pumpkin/squash arrangement that is on my table (see photo at the bottom).
Can you tell what's new?
By the way, my rooftop garden is the setting for all versions of my books that have Words In Our Beak in their title.
A few weeks ago, Juan V was here and arranged pumpkins and squashes which I received from a program at the Greenmarket.
They are included in the photo on the left (which features one of my urban hedges aka garden shelving).
However, this past Wednesday he added something to the "installation."
Check out the photo at the right. Can you tell what's new?
By the way my garden is the setting for all versions of my books that have Words In Our Beak in their title.
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Moreover, this bird type as well as a copy his particular photograph is featured in my latest book, BIRD TALES.
Evidently it during the time that Mr. Amsterdam was reading BIRD TALES, that he discovered the existence of my 2015 book Words In Our Beak Volume One, the iBook Version and bought it!
I love his heart felt review (directly above)!
It features a number of birds participating in a variety of activities and is dedicated to all birds and everyone who loves them. BIRD TALES is an interactive book for people of all ages to enjoy together.
FAA can also render this (and a number of my other images) selection into a jigsaw puzzle (a copy of an image of its box can be found directly below). For more details re this puzzle and to see my other selections, please visit me on FAA by clicking here.
This particular one is fun for families to work on together as each member could work on adding the pieces that belong to a particular pumpkin.
The image, Pumpkins Dress Up for Halloween, is featured in volume two of my Words In Our Beak hardcover book series.
