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Ever Dream Land

<div style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="yiv2146533235apple-style-span">When the <a href="http://www.norton.org/Exhibitions/Archive/Dinotopia/tabid/436/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306523950_3">Norton Museum of Art had its Dinotopia exhibition</span></a> last year, students involved with the Museum’s PACE program </span>(Progressive Afterschool Arts Community Education)<span class="yiv2146533235apple-style-span">  at local community sites worked together to create their own utopias.  These expressions of collective dreaming were exhibited in the museum  near my own paintings and models.</span></span></div><div style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4hQafCakCMI76nV8AqrXh3kSWGFYYj9xBGUJ82u4WK8cT_40LAe4LxUdzHHn_YRCMGFfS0sPnbQwXRBgLMwJA1eNoBV8K2qulvuibIliUleR8gLncoekw04xpPKWJUlkrzn3qJh08PY/s1600/Gurney_Ever_Dream_Land.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4hQafCakCMI76nV8AqrXh3kSWGFYYj9xBGUJ82u4WK8cT_40LAe4LxUdzHHn_YRCMGFfS0sPnbQwXRBgLMwJA1eNoBV8K2qulvuibIliUleR8gLncoekw04xpPKWJUlkrzn3qJh08PY/s320/Gurney_Ever_Dream_Land.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><div style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">The students of My Choice Community Development, a center in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306523950_4">Riviera Beach</span>, created a land inhabited by a marvelous menagerie of animals and plants, which they shaped out of clay. Students at <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306523950_5" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">Gaines Park</span>, a <a href="http://www.cityofwpb.com/park/">West Palm Beach Parks and Recreation </a>site, created an island called “Ever Dream Land.” The name was a reaction to the limits implied by the name “<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306523950_6">Never Never Land</span>” of Peter Pan.</span><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"> Ever Dream Land is inhabited by a marvelous menagerie of humans, animals and plants, which they shaped out of clay. </span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4C-LazZMOviT5SPiaukyzFAbEr3YaR0YYi-wJK3i0rEoiJl7DYUCw5UEJZtWTFbd7I8NY3SNknBaD0-f_8ZBRkXJJHMXCSYyjEfqyLdca-BDG8VkjYQvEWlyZlLVhuxB3a6YqAsDufZw/s1600/EverDreamLand.sm.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4C-LazZMOviT5SPiaukyzFAbEr3YaR0YYi-wJK3i0rEoiJl7DYUCw5UEJZtWTFbd7I8NY3SNknBaD0-f_8ZBRkXJJHMXCSYyjEfqyLdca-BDG8VkjYQvEWlyZlLVhuxB3a6YqAsDufZw/s400/EverDreamLand.sm.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">They drew a map and invented up their own set of alphabetic symbols. They pictured themselves floating up on balloons over ice cream mountains and candy rivers, with soft round homes made of discarded packing foam.</span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.norton.org/Exhibitions/Archive/Dinotopia/tabid/436/Default.aspx">The Norton Museum of Art's 2010 Dinotopia Exhibition</a></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>

Ever Dream Land

When the Norton Museum of Art had its Dinotopia exhibition last year, students involved with the Museum’s PACE program (Progressive Aftersc...

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Animal News

Over at the farm yesterday, Lenny harnessed up the Belgian draft horses. He wanted to give them some practice with ground driving.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2YQLQwG4crTjGemcVH_-wITSX1RzeItnrpH0GDzLkYSjKHGVUsFxdKjXOs6fCO9p2RC2tgyvHT8U4ZsTXxh0ISCuCuLaKnN8hh7j8vup4GwVBGk0Kr3q8TFXVRVhvLTuJ9NSWwV94TVY/s1600/Miniature_Horse_Harness.sm.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2YQLQwG4crTjGemcVH_-wITSX1RzeItnrpH0GDzLkYSjKHGVUsFxdKjXOs6fCO9p2RC2tgyvHT8U4ZsTXxh0ISCuCuLaKnN8hh7j8vup4GwVBGk0Kr3q8TFXVRVhvLTuJ9NSWwV94TVY/s400/Miniature_Horse_Harness.sm.JPG" width="400" /></a><br />Even the miniature horse Skye was in harness. She’s pregnant. A baby miniature foal is due in the next few days. I’ll try to do some sketches when the day comes.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHw0s_GrQ5ilYSWJYkpkbuR1V06AvVvOsXTxZ8RaAHXyASvb_0p3FTdJEe0qqUTQZtv1NQSgZaOWcYcdL_sKr_09ENu-EjhSVvGbvAL7hGFNmU_csjkVos3iVS6a7uStVEZ2c0KeUYr9s/s1600/Ground_Driving.sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHw0s_GrQ5ilYSWJYkpkbuR1V06AvVvOsXTxZ8RaAHXyASvb_0p3FTdJEe0qqUTQZtv1NQSgZaOWcYcdL_sKr_09ENu-EjhSVvGbvAL7hGFNmU_csjkVos3iVS6a7uStVEZ2c0KeUYr9s/s400/Ground_Driving.sm.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />Lenny let me try ground driving behind Sofie and Abby. It’s the first time I’ve tried it. He told me to lean back a bit to let them know I was behind them.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_KsZnHG6kJ0S1uAAkB_p0lkwvSVD52PRyG63BL2gxw9HjcdIEW7KJrrOomTgVMwrV0mMqgDZ2x9hmqKgAMk7u4drsRWZDsD0uAgdZ5Xa6MsBiqRVr6o2hyJz7vHqWeZ9YXKd_5qtjQoc/s1600/Plowing.sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_KsZnHG6kJ0S1uAAkB_p0lkwvSVD52PRyG63BL2gxw9HjcdIEW7KJrrOomTgVMwrV0mMqgDZ2x9hmqKgAMk7u4drsRWZDsD0uAgdZ5Xa6MsBiqRVr6o2hyJz7vHqWeZ9YXKd_5qtjQoc/s320/Plowing.sm.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />I was pretending I was walking behind a couple of Anchiceratops, like in <a href="http://www.dinotopia.com/dinotopia-store.html"><i>Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara.</i></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlGAGSGFJjfZyMzMUdWyhH2js4MO-vpeT3-D0cclKltbvsAEBf6lWzx_deRCA_TNFhbDT1H-NyrlVuIo0HravHU4Wk4hlmwYjcxlj9WIiCn7nlvKi8CequGEm5tt6vi9tgGlnw9yN5mDs/s1600/Rose_breasted_Grosbeak.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGeWS4x-ZqCnYDiKvvrOfjEaK7aGmBNobzOBfglUIdYbIdLMbVaPewL6yUd6EkDLjkyUR380dKQFRUpqqX5MFZPo2-IgWC3OCqdUJCBewH3M1Uy_3fH90r_n8kxhhVyi59V2ho6dlZQY/s1600/Black+Bear.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGeWS4x-ZqCnYDiKvvrOfjEaK7aGmBNobzOBfglUIdYbIdLMbVaPewL6yUd6EkDLjkyUR380dKQFRUpqqX5MFZPo2-IgWC3OCqdUJCBewH3M1Uy_3fH90r_n8kxhhVyi59V2ho6dlZQY/s320/Black+Bear.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />The other news is that on Saturday night a big black bear came right up to the back of our house. I think he smelled the bird feeders. It's the first black bear I've ever seen on this side of the Hudson River.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlGAGSGFJjfZyMzMUdWyhH2js4MO-vpeT3-D0cclKltbvsAEBf6lWzx_deRCA_TNFhbDT1H-NyrlVuIo0HravHU4Wk4hlmwYjcxlj9WIiCn7nlvKi8CequGEm5tt6vi9tgGlnw9yN5mDs/s1600/Rose_breasted_Grosbeak.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlGAGSGFJjfZyMzMUdWyhH2js4MO-vpeT3-D0cclKltbvsAEBf6lWzx_deRCA_TNFhbDT1H-NyrlVuIo0HravHU4Wk4hlmwYjcxlj9WIiCn7nlvKi8CequGEm5tt6vi9tgGlnw9yN5mDs/s200/Rose_breasted_Grosbeak.jpg" width="188" /></a><br />Soon it will be time to close up the feeders for the season, but there have been some spectacular birds passing through, such as my favorite, the rose breasted grosbeak, a bird we see only one day a year.<br /><br />Previously on Gurney Journey<br /><a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/04/flashy-princess.html">Princess the Belgian filly</a><br /><a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-surprise.html">Christmas Surprise (birth of Joy, the donkey) </a><br /><a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/01/joy-in-farmyard.html">Joy in the Farmyard</a><br /><a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/02/snow-plowing-with-draft-horses.html">Snow Plowing with Draft Horses</a><br /><br />By the way, <a href="http://acopal.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=56">ACOPAL (America China Oil Painting Artist League) has announced its winners and finalists</a>. The link takes you to a gallery of the work accepted. I'm delighted that my painting Chandara was chosen as a finalist.

Animal News

Over at the farm yesterday, Lenny harnessed up the Belgian draft horses. He wanted to give them some practice with ground driving. Even the ...