Author: craigburkhalter

I produce a lot of political and social statement art work. Many of these are small palm sized works that I’m told find their way into right wing books and magazines, some are biting and some are just silly. I further confuse people by printing them on fancy pants paper. I don’t really expect to…

An old man with a garden, a camera AND purty flowers…. These are from the morning cutting.

I have a love of Charlie Dingler’s whirlygigs. I’ve got 13 on my garden fence and 2 more by my back door. The first year I owned one I made sure to take it in during the winter months but later discovered I really like watching them decay in the weather. I don’t consider this…

There is a mountain bog near here where I’ve taken many photos over the years. I’ve tromped through it, gotten stuck in it and walked the circumference of it and seen bears, snakes, beavers eagles, hawks and many other species of birds. It is a really bad time of the year for rattlesnakes so I’m…

It still amazes me that I can walk outside cut cut things like these and bring ’em inside.

I can’t imagine living in a better place than where I’m at now, 900,000 acres of mountains, forest, trees and animals. I’ve learned not to eat things out of the forest without proper identification and I’ve learned this is NOT a petting zoo… some of the animals are dangerous. Blue hasn’t learned that. She chases…

Here are a few photos of my morning flower pick. Annuals and Perinnals are all doing well.

I wrote about Yellow Fringed Orchids and mentioned some of the other orchids in this area but didn’t want to steal the excitement from my first sighting of YFO. Here are some photos of a few others.

I saw my first Yellow Fringed Orchid of the season today. Until I moved here I wasn’t aware that orchids grow in the mountains and even later how many there are growing here. We have Showy Orchids, Lady Tresses (several varieties), Rattlesnake Plantain, Yellow Fringed, Lady Slippers, Crane Fly and I haven’t seen one but…

Recently I wrote about Donna Mintz, our friendship and the people I’ve met through her. One artist in particular is Michael Murrell. He is one of the most prolific and interesting artists I’ve ever met. He has an enormous 30,000 square foot studio at Habersham Mills. Although he exhibits world wide he rarely sells any…