Found Art – Old stump and bunchberry
I found this old spruce stump while wandering along a trail. This is a shot looking straight down. I though the saw cut, fungi, and surrounding bunchberry (ground dogwood) made an interesting composition.
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Found Art–Old pipe thread cutter in burned building
Here is a photo of an ancient pipe thread cutter lying in a burned out building in the hills north of Fairbanks. It is a massive hand-operated cutter. Each of the handles is about...
Copper River Delta root art
My family lives in Cordova, on the eastern edge of Prince William Sound. One of out favorite summer activities was driving out to the middle of the Copper River Delta about 30 miles...
Found art – cast-offs discovered in the woods
Its doesn’t take much to make me happy: a forgotten whatcha-ma-call-it gradually being buried by leaves and twigs, or an old barrel mouldering in a stand of black spruce. You never know what you...
Artistic Mud
It has been raining recently. Reminds me of a few years ago when we had to do some repairs to the front of our garage’s foundation. While the trench was still open it rained,...
Found art – Minutia in the melting snow
I took a mini expedition in my back yard this morning, looking for unusual formations in the melting snow. Some of the things I discovered were birch catkin scales. If the ground were bare...
Other side of my fence in March
The temperature got up to about 40 degrees today so I thought I’d take a few photos while there was still plenty of snow. The first photo is the neighbor’s side of our fence....
Found art – snow gargoyles sitting on my fence – Fairbanks, Alaska
My wife, Betsy, pointed out some interesting snow sculptures sitting on the fence next to our house. As you can see, the fence boards alternate on both sides of the fence. What you...
Found Art/Earthwork Art – Dredge Tailings in Springtime
Gold dredges have majorly changed the landscape around Fairbanks. At one time or another there have been about eight dredges operating in the area’s valleys. These dredges, which floated in their own man-made ponds,...
Sagging snow sculpture outside my door
It was a beautiful day today–clear and about 25 degrees F. above zero (shirt-sleeve weather). I’ve been wanting to take photos of the snow on top of our arbor gate, and this was...
