A Bird Without Tail Feathers?

 Hi everyone. Happy weekend to you.

I'm away in Utah right now. According to my hotel schedule we should be in the area of Dinosaur National Monument that straddles the states of Utah and Colorado in the north-eastern corner of Utah. The last 2 days we have been hiking, doing some driving and seeing some great scenery. 

We Here’s a photo I took yesterday on my phone as we approached Capital Reef National Park in Utah. 

The rest of this post is scheduled because I didn't want Neet to think I was ignoring her challenge.

I still had several guinea hen feathers that I picked up last spring when we had a maple syrup day at my daughter's future in-laws.  I thought this would be a good challenge to use some of them.

I started by stamping the background  with feathers images and black ink. Then I gave my page a spray with some yellow ochre-ish mica ink. I don't think my photo caught the shimmer very well, but you'll have to take my word that it does shimmer.

 I stamped this silly bird and fussy cut her. After I glued her down on my page and colored her in, I glued down some feathers. I had to cut off  her tail feathers (when I fussy cut out the image) because they would have been too hard to hand cut out, and perhaps that is why there are some actual feathers on my page. This poor lady has lost her tail.  She does look like she is running away from something. Maybe I should have drawn some scissors on the page also, but that might have frightened her even more.

I also want to share more  photos from the grounds of The Mount before I come home from our vacation trip and have lots of National Park photos. I showed you the gardens and grounds of The Mount already, but you may remember I mentioned that they also had some sculptures displayed on the ground. These were not permanent sculpture displays, but only there for the season. You can actually buy the sculptures if you have lots of money. 

Here's a few today, and I'll share more next week.

I'll start off with this gateway to nature and the great texture the artist cerated.

This next one was called The Swimmer.

And this mountain lion sculpture was quite life-like, especially from afar. When I took these photos the sun hit it just right so it sparkled. Later in the day when we walked back by her the sun didn't hit it right and although still striking, it didn't shimmer. My photos didn't really catch the shimmer sadly.

And lastly for today, how about this cool lounge chair? I would love this in my yard, but, it isn't in my budget. If you look carefully you can see it is made from all 26 letters of the English alphabet. They are metal.

That's all for me today. I hope you enjoy your weekend.