Eerie Blue Fungus!

I wanted to create some lighting that looked like glowing blue fungus for the mural I'm painting; turned out quite well imho.
This consists of a battery operated laser light, a blue vase from the Dollar Store,  plastic milk jug handles, hot glue and old man's beard on the base.  Changed my mind and glued torn up drop sheet polyvinyl to the base.  Better light and more eerie.
You can call me the Macgyver of squeaky cheap craft!

Jumping Into a New Mural

Look at how much copyrighted material I can knock off in 3 hours!! (I don't think it's recognizable just yet)  Took 120 square feet almost to completion this afternoon...I hope.  Guess time will tell; it always does.  The beginning phase can be deceptive when one can tackle hundreds of square feet in little time.  It's the fine tuning and polish that really streeeeetch out a project.  *fingers crossed*

And More Bear, Yet Again!

In nearly the same spot by the Kitimat river as our recent bear sightings just south of the orange bridge, today we saw 2 young grizzley sibs. I've used zoom and crop on the photo but still...both the husband and I had our fingers hovering over the window control.  People are starting to stop right on the highway and if you're on the southbound side, it's on a curve so if one of those ubiquetous logging trucks come barrelling along, the resulting collision is going to be spectacular.
I think I've had enough bear for now.

*Gasp* *Clutches Heart*

Remember this purdy thing??

Well today, when I visited the scene shop I witnessed the evidence of its demise.

*sigh* Kinda thought it might be saved but...guess not.  Bummer.



More Bear!

Second year grizzley cub munching on grass right beside the road near the Kitimat river.  Mama was off to the right a bit farther back, ensconced in the bushes so we didn't get very good photos of her.  This is how I prefer to view bears: sitting in a running car watching them intently focussed on 'not ME'.

Black is Back

Bears, that is.

Saw my second bear of the season yesterday while driving from City Centre to Service centre.  In both cases they were black bears which was surprising given our infestation of grizzlies last fall.  This guy was heading from a block of old growth forest conveniently placed in the middle of town and just on the other side of those trees is Kildala neighborhood.

While at the gym today, the owner told me that last year when we had a white Kermode bear hanging around, local citizens were throwing caution out the window and practically walking right up to it because "Spirit Bears can't hurt you, can they?" 

In addition the husband told me that people have been feeding a black bear not far from town on the highway.  *smacks forehead*

You don't even want to know some of the sloppy garbage practices. 

I can't believe that here of all places we have such bear unawareness...

May The Fourth

...nope...not gonna go there.
But here; here we have spring creeeeping in oh so slowly. 

This is the view to the backyard at the BFF's this afternoon.  Spring comes a lot later for her than it does for me and my yard.  There are still so many places tucked away around town where winter lurks either in a sheltered band to the north of a grove of trees or in the numerous piles where white stuff was frantically gathered during those frequent days and nights of unrelenting snowfall.