A special day today because we saw the cranes. It had started to snow this afternoon and the light was just beginning to fade, when I heard them calling away. I thought at first that it might have been the Egyptian Geese, because, even though there's only two of them, they sometimes take it upon themselves to migrate to Siegfried's and make a lot of noise while they're doing it - but it was the cranes. Flying up high in the chill twilight over this old meandering River, with their whooping call and the snow falling on their wings - now that would have been a good close-up photo.......
I didn't even have the opportunity to take a long distance one as they flew over so fast, but I did take one last year.....
This year they're almost a month earlier, but perhaps I missed the first ones then. Flying all the way to Scandinavia and the Baltic from their wintering grounds in Spain and they pass right over Ediger-Eller. What with this cold weather they're probably wishing that they'd stayed in Spain for a little bit longer.
And yes, my painting is finished - 'Wilbur in the Window' is what I'll call it, even though to myself it's called something else. I did a bit of adjustment to the celtic circle to make it a bit less prominent, as it was overpowering Wilbur slightly. Then a little bit of paint here and there, then the whiskers.
I'll scan it into my trusty computer tomorrow and sort out the print - must update my website as well.
There's a new painting underway already (they overlapped a small bit) - and it's going to be my Avatar..... Now, I never really thought that I would have one of these, but there ye go. I'm going to need it for my shop, so I thought that I'd combine a painting, a print to sell and the Avatar all in one.
It'll be in my next post,
so,
soon,
Tschüss!
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