Bloomington Holiday Market

The holiday season is fast approaching and one of the nicest things about it are the local art fairs.  The Bloomington area is blessed with an abundance of artists and fine craftspersons.   I'll be joining many of them at the Bloomington Holiday Market at the Showers Building [City Hall] next weekend.

Saturday, November 24  10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Robin Edmundson, Watercolors

Booth #21,  Showers Building, downstairs

Please stop in a say hello!   I'll have original watercolor paintings, prints and a few notecards.  

© Robin Edmundson, watercolor,  'Burning the bales, clearing the fencerows',
10 x 14 inches.   $375.     [Framed:  18 x 22 inches]

I'll be bringing this piece - it's one of my favorites.  If there's something specific that you'd like to see in person, let me know and I'll make sure it's there.

Prints...

One of my splurges for the show was to get this beautiful oak rack to put my prints in.   I spent a day packaging the prints and they're ready to go.   They're looking pretty nice in the rack.

For a preview of the prints I have ready now, check out my website: www.robinedmundson.com  [Go to the shop page]

Tracks

We get little [and big] visitors all the time.    The edges of the creek bed are full of prints.   Here are some that we found this week.

So, who left these tracks?    With this handy-dandy Northwoods Tracks guide - put out by the Wildlife Conservation Society - we can find out.    [We got ours at the Muscatatuck NWR Nature Center.]

According to the guide, these tracks were raccoon:

This is a front left paw.  Notice the very long fingers tipped with a claw.  The claw marks in this print are very distinct - they aren't always.


These were possum.  [Or opossum, if you insist.   But only if you insist.]

Notice the very rounded finger tips.   The right print is from a left front paw.    The pad is very short - less than the length of the fingers.    The left print is from a left rear paw.   The pad is longer and there's an odd indentation that hangs way down off the right corner of the pad.  [Kind of hard to see in the photo.]

So, there you have it. 

Once in a while, if I'm really lucky, we find these tracks on the creek bed.