Lesley Smitheringale on June 21st, 2007

Meet these artistic animals …
Koopa, a Gulf Coast box turtle, creates a summer-themed custom ordered painting for a buyer in Australia at the home of his owner, Kira Varszegi in Hartford, Conn., on Aug. 24, 2004. Koopa’s paintings sold on eBay for hundreds of dollars, and his pieces hang in 35 of the 50 states. [...]

Continue reading about Featured Artists - Pigcasso and Friends

Lesley Smitheringale on June 13th, 2007

Sydney, Australia
May 30, 2007—No, a kitten and a bear cub didn’t get jumbled together using the machine from the 1986 horror flick The Fly. Indah, seen here, is actually an eight-week-old binturong on display at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. The fledgling—the first binturong bred in captivity at Taronga since the species went on [...]

Continue reading about Meet Indah, the Baby Binturong

Lesley Smitheringale on June 11th, 2007

Beautiful lanterns made from plant fibre with leaf skeletons treated with a fire retardant. Click on the picture to visit the website 
Technorati tags: lanterns, leaf, homeware

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Continue reading about Leaf lanterns

Lesley Smitheringale on June 8th, 2007

I took this photograph of a rather sriking spider in my front yard and I was intrigued by his colours, position and thicker white web on the four corners ….

Features
St Andrew’s Cross Spiders are named for their bright web decorations - zig-zag ribbons of bluish-white silk that form a full or partial cross through the [...]

Continue reading about Garden Guests Diary - Waiting for Prey [8 June 2007]