Photos of readers

October 17, 2019 • 2:45 pm

One thing I’ve discovered from soliciting readers’ photographs is how creative many of our readers are. And here’s another in that genre, Robert Lundgren, Jr. His notes are indented.

Just wanted to let you know that the Creator doesn’t reside up above, but rather has been found to reside in the dungeon (of my basement). Some prototypical evolutionary planning is evident in these photos.

All jest aside, this is a photo of me whiling away my idol hours of retirement. A while back I was looking at my back yard bird feeder and realized that it would be enhanced by the addition of a weathervane. The endeavor of making that has gotten a bit out of hand. To my left in the photo of me are a “luna moth” and a “dragon fly” mounted as weathervanes. The other photos are other “creations” that could be mounted as weathervanes, but in this case are set up to be hung.

 

The creator has reached the seventh day, however, and has put away the metal shears in favor of colored pencils. He just couldn’t take the dungeon any longer.

24 thoughts on “Photos of readers”

  3. As a nice bonus, any bird dopey enough to fly into it will end up ready-sliced for cooking 😉

  4. Gosh! Your sculptures (do you consider them mobiles?) are absolutely beautiful — amazing and amusing.

    G*d can’t compete with your creations.

    1. Thanks. Yes. Pretty bleak down there, and the white pipe you can see in the background is part of the radon mitigation system. But, he has arisen – the the studio on the second floor of the house. 😊

  8. Wow! Those are amazing sculptures. I’m not the type for crafty things, much. These are art.

  9. What an awesome way to spend your retirement! Great stuff. Sincere congratulations on having such a worthwhile hobby. Can you even call it a hobby if you’re that good at it and spend that much time on it? I guess any job you do for enjoyment rather than pay is a hobby, no matter how often you do it or how good at it you are.

    Who knew a young Wilford Brimley could both act and make wonderful sculptures 🙂

    (just joshing with the Wilford Brimley thing, but I’m sure you’re heard it before)

    1. Thanks. Yes to the Wilford Brimley thing. I fairly often, when out in public, find people staring at me or doing double takes wondering if they know me from somewhere. I’m pretty sure why, since it’s my wife who knows everyone in public, not me.

      1. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wished I had the kind of creativity you have. Maybe I just never found my “thing,” but I can barely draw a stick figure with a ruler. I’m not good at creative writing. I’ve never been good at anything creative, except maybe in my thinking, but the only ways I’ve been able to apply that is by criticizing movies (and annoying my friends and family in doing it) and thinking creatively about the law when I was in law school. Too bad I didn’t stay in law school!

  11. I can only reiterate what everyone else has said. These are gorgeous! I’m only sorry it’s so awful down in the dungeon that there will be no more creations coming forth and multiplying.

  12. Love the looks of that dragonfly. A nice activity/hobby to keep you occupied; very impressive work. I’d put any of those in my garden in a second.

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