Saturday 22 September 2018

Who buys computers these days? Build your own instead

Six years ago my son and i decided to build a computer,
 rather than buy one off-the-shelf.
It was time well spent together!

Now he's built his own gaming machine,
all by himself!











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Saturday 15 September 2018

Spider on a web

If you want to learn acrobatics, ask this spider


Or if you want to learn weaving ...


This side view of the spider web looks like the strings of a harp


This loonie-sized spider,
resembles a crab!
(The largest spiders I've seen, 
are the tarantulas,
In our home in Africa)


What a beautiful spider web,
3 feet in diameter


I once saw a spider eating it's own web!

Monday 10 September 2018

Life

"This life was given to me as a gift from God, and I have no right to take it" 
- John Koshy 
10 Sept 2018

Saturday 8 September 2018

"As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure" - Hans Zimmer

These movies would never be the same without the music of Hans Zimmer


Madagascar


Gladiator
(Vocals by Czarina Russell)

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor performed by Amy Turk on harp

What an amazing performance!
This is a piece of organ music, probably composed in 1704 
played on the harp.

Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor 
performed by Amy Turk on the harp

Wednesday 5 September 2018

Saving a Grasshopper

Saved a grasshopper ...

 
And then ...
... the cicadas started their chorus!


Saturday 1 September 2018

Listening to Rimsky-Korsakov and painting Hummingbird in the Night

 God has spoken to me to reassure me more than once,
through the rare appearance of Hummingbirds.
So Hummingbird sightings, 
are very treasured moments!
I saw this juvenile male Ruby-throated Hummingbird, 
two years ago, 
and as recently as yesterday!!


Mixing gold, yellow, emerald green and black


This is Flight of the Bumblebee written by
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
(composed 1899-1900)
and an amazing violin performance by Katica Illényi 







16"x 20" oil painting on Russian birch panel