Piney Creek Reflections: Landscapes and Birds from the Banks of Piney Creek Oil Paintings and Photographs by Tammy Brown Hosted by Piney Creek Chophouse, 703 Chestnut St, Bastrop, Texas Bastrop First Friday Art Walk, March 3, 2017, 5:30-8:30 Please join us!
Author: Tammy Brown
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An Invitation to Bastrop First Friday Art Walk, March 3
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Ecotherapy and Nature Connection–Healing and Thriving Naturally
Something changes in my body and mind when I turn down the tree-lined dirt road to Little Piney. I start to relax and feel calm. I roll down the windows, drive slowly, and take in the sounds of birds. By the time I pull up the to the house, I am smiling and sayingContinue reading
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Beautiful Birds of Winter: American Kestrel, Song Sparrow, Green Kingfisher
Beautiful Birds of Winter As the landscape evolves from verdant to gray, summer birds quietly leave and winter birds (not so quietly in the case of Robins and Cedar Waxwings) take their place. We welcome them back with full feeders and delight. In the past two weeks, an American Kestrel, a Song Sparrow, and aContinue reading
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Painting Birds at Little Piney–Part II
Still Painting Birds Back in August, I posted about painting birds at Little Piney. After a few weeks of making realistic realistic drawings of individual birds I moved on to painting birds interacting with a reference to human dynamics. See Part I. Now it’s December, and I’m still painting birds. In the picnic scene below,Continue reading
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Coyotes and Other Critters Call Little Piney “Home”
Coyote Pack I love to pour a cup of coffee in the morning and look out the back window. Sometimes I see deer, and sometimes coyotes and other critters. This pack of three has been around for awhile now. Coyotes and Other Critters Early one morning, I saw a deer and coyote cross paths. Things wereContinue reading
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Magical Morning at Little Piney
Magical Morning at Little Piney At 7 am mist floats above the front field. Spiders’ webs fly like white surrender flags in the dawn. The webs hold hundreds of Lynx spiders’ eggs guarded by watchful mothers. Sparrows and Cardinals chip and sing in the tall fading field. A Lincoln’s Sparrow, just back for the winter,Continue reading
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Red-shouldered Hawk’s Crunchy Breakfast
Red-shouldered Hawk Sometimes all I see of the Red-shouldered Hawk is a dark shadow passing over the field, sometimes, a familiar shape disappearing at the edge of vision. She is in front of me, then behind me when I never saw her move. Sometimes, I turn around, and she is only feet away calm andContinue reading
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When I’m Birding It’s Totally Up to the Birds
It’s Totally Up to the Birds I have to confess, on my first few “birding walks” led by expert birders, I asked myself “Are they making this up?” Most of the time, I never saw the bird they pointed out. When I did, I saw a gray silhouette against the morning sky while the guideContinue reading
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Autumn’s Creeping in Slowly in the Lost Pines
Autumn’s Creeping In Slowly Autumn’s creeping in slowly this year in the Lost Pines. The elms leaves disappeared without any showy display of yellow. The invasive but lovely Chinese Tallows have yet to flame orange or red. Bird feeders in Bastrop County are hanging full in quiet yards, and the autumn birds are slow inContinue reading
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Shredding and Other Accomplishments
Shredding My hands still tingle from clutching the steering wheel. I’m itchy, dusty, sweaty, and smiling. I just shut down the shiny orange tractor and surveyed my work, and I feel proud. Tractors are loud, powerful and a little bit dangerous. I just spent an hour on our Kioti, shredding over fields and driveways, listeningContinue reading