{"id":2933,"date":"2014-04-15T11:23:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T18:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2024-01-21T09:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T17:47:30","slug":"my-48-north-story-for-april-2014-and-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/my-48-north-story-for-april-2014-and-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"My 48-North Story for April, 2014 – and Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s my article in 48 North magazine for April, 2014.<\/strong> I almost forgot to toss this into my blog until I received my copy in the mail a few days ago. You can see this on page 48 on their website<\/a>. This sketchbook was all about diving and dabbling ducks, the interesting differences between them, and how each makes their living. And, it was just a chance to make sure I knew all this stuff without looking it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve discovered that the best pages I write and draw have big eyeballs. What, you say? The tube worm story didn’t have huge ratings? Well, it’s just that we humans are drawn to those with big eyes – like Nancy and our deer herd here in the meadow that keep looking in the windows, eyeball to eyeball with the big-eyed house cat that we won’t let outside. Big moon last night and there was a coyote-chorus right below our windows. The local bobcat has come gaping in my studio window before, looking right at me as if to say: where’s the cat?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 But here’s the thing.<\/strong> The neighborhood is littered with ‘missing fluffy signs written by names the likes of Tiffany and Heather, neighbors who let their cats roam free to murder wild birds that have a hard enough time of life as it is. Hey, I look at it as nature attempting to maintain a healthy situation. House cats kill over a BILLION wild birds each year and the predators take care of a few of the cats. It’s obvious to me that cat-owners who allow their pets outside are people who (lazily or egotistically?) could care less about nature. They’re targets of my unending quest to open their eyes, one eyeball-painting at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading this week.
Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the blog on the web.<\/a>  And here’s my Facebook fan page<\/a>. I post lots of other stuff there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click <\/a>here to go to our main website – with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy’s web portfolio of beautiful photographs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And\u00a0Click<\/a> here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website. Her books are now becoming available as Amazon Kindle books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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