Cracking open Macadamia Nuts

These nuts are native to Australia.

Without this tool that thankfully came along with the nuts, it's difficult to crack the shell and remove the seed.

Besides human beings, the Hyacinth Macaw, which is a large parrot, is probably the only other creature that can crack open a Macadamia nut!

Painting Pronghorn in the Canadian Prairies

While waiting for the English Bay beach painting to dry up, my mind drifted away to the Canadian Prairies where we saw Pronghorn roaming wild and free! 

Though they look like antelope, they are more closely related to the giraffe and okapi family. 

They are the fastest land mammal in the Western hemisphere, second to the now extinct American Cheetah

Pronghorn in the Prairies

18" x 24" oil painting

Sonic Attack

Sonic Attack

Unseen but not unheard,

Infrasound or ultrasound?

Neither scientist nor neurotologist has explanation to back,

The mystery of a sonic attack

-John Koshy

 29^th Sept 2017

Listening to The Canadian Railroad Trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot, and painting Storm Clouds over the Prairies, Saskatchewan

Storm Clouds over the Prairies, Saskatchewan

24"x 36" oil painting on stretched canvas

Painting Black Bear and Cubs, Blue River, British Columbia

As the summer afternoon breeze swept over the Blue River in the Canadian Rockies,
we quietly headed towards the edge of the mountains ...

... And suddenly we saw a Black Bear with it's two little cubs

Either they were unaware of our presence, or they were least interested in us.

They were focused on finding food at the edge of the water, and underneath rocks

Here's a very short clip

The rest is imagination

And I just broke a paintbrush!

Black Bear and Cubs, Blue River, British Columbia