For Chipmunk Lovers

[MargaretAnne]

This is a picture documentary titled, A Little Chipmunk I Once Met from someone who befriended a chipmunk and wanted other people to read about the experience.

These pictures are of a little chipmunk I befriended in late 1997 or early 1998. He had gotten where he would come within several inches of my shoe to get a peanut, with me seated on the ground. This was quite amazing to me, because previously I had only caught darting glances of chipmunks. As soon as you saw them, they were gone. This little fellow would stop long enough to stuff his cheeks with peanuts (notice that his stuffed cheeks become shaped like a peanut!!!), then run back to his burrow to store them. As he would dash into his hole, his little tail would "vibrate" and disappear, as if he were being sucked into a vortex.

home.att.net/~lordofthesquirrels/chipmunk/chipmunk.htm

www.dlbrittain.com/Chipmunk.htm
www.critterlight.com/Chipmunk-1-62402.jpg

web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~rende/gallery2/d/611-6/chipmunk.jpg
web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~rende/gallery2/v/animals/chipmunk.jpg.html (source)


kwc.org/blog/archives/photos/2003/

owlfish.com/weblog/2004/05/archive.html

The following squirrels and chipmunks are found in Central Oregon:

• Allen's Chipmunk
  
• Belding's Ground Squirrel
  
• California Ground Squirrel
  
• Douglas' Squirrel (Chickaree)
  
• Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
  
• Least Chipmunk Northern Flying Squirrel
  
• Siskiyou Chipmunk
  
• Townsend's Chipmunk
  
• Townsend's Ground Squirrel
  
• Yellow Pine Chipmunk
  
• Western Gray Squirrel

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www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/wildlife/species/mammals/rodents-squirrels.shtml

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

~ Nazim Hikmet, Turkish Poet & Dramatist (1901-1963)

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence."

~ George Eliot, English Novelist (1819-1880)

Near to Heaven

"Despite the advice of his lieutenants, [the explorer Sir Humphrey] Gilbert refused to abandon his little ten-ton frigate, the Squirrel, which was overloaded and unseaworthy. Having paid a visit to his men onboard the other remaining ship in his fleet, the Golden Hind, he insisted on returning to the Squirrel. On the afternoon of September 9, 1583, the frigate was almost overwhelmed by the waves, but finally was recovered. Gilbert, sitting near the stern with a book in his hand, shouted out to the Golden Hind as it came within earshot, 'We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.' That night the watch on the Golden Hind saw the lights of the Squirrel suddenly vanish, and he cried out, 'The general is cast away.' This was indeed true, and of the five ships that set out on the expedition, only the Golden Hind returned to England to tell the tale, together with Gilbert's noble last words."


Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (?1539-1583) English soldier and navigator, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh [noted for his expedition to the New World (1583), during which he landed in Newfoundland - and claimed it for England]

[Sources: Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes]

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anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=14168

[MargaretAnne]

I love the drawing of the frigate in the post above. Here's a larger picture:



I also like lithographs. For example, The Holyoke, Massachusetts website has a lot of nice ones of former paper manufacturers. Actually, these are called engravings. I'm not familiar with all the various printing processes. I guess a lithograph isn't the same thing as an engraving.

www.holyokemass.com/hwp_1876/lith25.html
www.holyokemass.com/hwp_1876/index.html



Here's a description of the different printing processes:

TECHNIQUES:

A. Woodblock (or linoblock) is produced by gouging out areas on a wooden block or linoleum coated block that leaves a flat printable area. The gouged areas do not print.

B. Etchings are produced by blocking out areas on a metal plate (zinc or copper) and placing the plate in nitric acid allowing an image to be "bitten" into the metal. The longer the plate is left in the acid the darker the image will appear when printed. After the image is finished on the plate ink is wiped onto the plate, the plate is buffed down to remove excess ink and water soaked paper is placed on the plate. This is then passed through a hand-press. The ink that was left in the grooves becomes the image on the paper. (Note: Aquatints are etchings where rosin dust is used to block out areas not to be printed. Properly done, these look like watercolors.)

C. Engravings are produced by gouging the surface of a metal plate with tools specifically made for this technique. Grooves are left that will hold the ink when printed. As opposed to dry point, the burrs left by the gouging of the metal plate are removed. The printing is similar to etching.

D. Dry points are produced by using a needle or diamond point to raise a burr that will later hold the ink to be printed. Dry point is often used with etching to create an image.

E. Lithographs are produced by drawing and/or painting onto the surface of a flat surface (limestone or, now, metal plates) with grease. The surface is then treated with various chemicals to stabilize the image. Once the image is stabilized, water is sponged onto the surface, and ink is rolled onto the image. The areas where the grease image is are the only areas that will accept the ink. Paper is then placed on the surface and run through the press. In most cases, each color requires a different stone or plate. Quite often 40 or more stones or plates are used. The surface of a lithograph has only the texture of the paper.

F. Serigraphs or screen prints are produced by creating a stencil on thin fabric (originally silk, now man-made fabric) that is stretched across a frame. These screens are then placed on the paper or any other surface to be printed on and a squeegee with ink is then pulled across the screen leaving ink on the paper where the stencil is open. A new screen is used for each color. As opposed to lithography, serigraphs can have texture, and quite often opaque inks are used thus giving the serigraph the feel of an original oil or acrylic painting. Quite often serigraphs are done on canvas for this effect.

www.vueart.com/printmaking.htm