rik-rat corn pile

Friday, June 18, 2010

it was hot.



It’s all sorts of hot, here.
The insides of my spectacles are fogging up and
I wanna write curse words on the glass.

But…

My fingers won’t fit behind the frames.
I would have wrote F U in one lens
And C then K in the other one.

clever stuff.

The sun is making my sweat sticky.
Not in a good sticky way.
In the “this dust is gonna cling to you all day”

sticky kind of way.

And I sorta see some black smudges at the edge of the field.

I'll bet they're buzzards.

Those things would eat me if it got the chance.
Well, they’d eat me if I was lying there dead.
Or dying and feeble.

Gross.

It’s too humid to be lying dead in a cornfield
Getting all eaten by vultures.
Too humid for me anyways,

The deer they’re eating doesn’t seem to mind.

I think it’s too dead to worry about the situation.
And I’m too sweaty to worry about the situation.
Fuck.

It’s Hot.



Thursday, June 17, 2010

week old weekend drawing.

iowahappenings.

Sexy turtles. Sexy Geese.


The other day (a few weeks ago) was spent at a graveyard.
There's a pond at the graveyard. People flock to this place because there's a lot of stuff to do. You can watch tadpoles do tadpole stuff, watch frogs do frog stuff, read gravestones, steal old flowers from the facilities area, feed the swans and geese.
Or you can just watch the swans and geese fuck. It is much more enjoyable then stealing flowers from the dead and way more enjoyable then feeding the swans and geese. With that being said, I photographed the pre coitus of the turtles and the post coitus of the geese.
enjoy.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Collab!

This drawing is a collaboration between myself and my internet friend, Tom. I've always enjoyed his meandering doodles and meandering words. So, the natural thing to do is meander together. Check out his work at http://halfmoosewithatwist.blogspot.com/.

Monday, June 14, 2010

goofy lil' doodly.

deerheartsnakefishPOW.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Thursday, June 10, 2010

eagle mom and three babies.

1. she was watching us the whole time we were near the three babies.
2. I drew this after we got to camp.

3. Three babies looking at their mom. We're looking at the babies. Mom is looking at us.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

i don't miss winter.


idontmisswinterthey'rehereinsummer.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Friday, June 4, 2010

So Fast.

fly with sprinkle

Beef-alo.

trottingonhearts.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

joint drawing.

I drew this on a dock at 2am with a man named Scottie.

Jimi the Goose.

1. Jimi goose is very handsome. He knows it.

2. I scared him with a purple leaf. He's pretty dumb.


3. Profile shot!



Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Friday, May 28, 2010

sitting by water.

leucistic cardinal scares off biomass.
Little island deer.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

juncos and baby possums.

Black White Bird Baby Marsupials

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

100th Post.

House Finch Fervor.

Sketch of a Loud Bird.



stinky bluejay page.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

recent sketchbook

robin three times over.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Nice Times

nice times


Hey, I saw some big ol' carp
traversing up the river.
They bit and ate wet blades of grass.
Then made the water quiver.

Yesterday, a swimming snake
cut S shapes in a pond.
His periscope head spied land for a bed
and then the snake was gone.

Slowly we will gravitate
to a stream a pond or lake
We'll walk around to pick up shells
We'll find some flint to flake.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

lodge fodder.


This painting is pixelated, compressed, and shitty looking on my website www.janeryder.com. I've been picking up lots of chewed up beaver sticks by the lake and its made me think about this gouache paintin'. Title: Lodge Fodder.


Yup.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Babies all over Mahaska County.

Monday, May 17, 2010

1. Juvenile Bullfrog. DeKalb County, IL. 2. Big ol' Bullfrog playing dead. DeKalb County, IL.
3. Chimney Crayfish (?), Dekalb County, IL



Friday, May 14, 2010

green frog. wapello county.
tree frog. Muscatine County.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

(green?) frog eggs. Wapello County.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

American Toad. Wapello County.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Leopard Frog. Wapello County, IA.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

i miss these.


My Ryder-Dog and Bonnie Bray.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

spring cleaning.

Spring trades eagles for buzzards
As the chosen mode
For cleaning out it's cupboards
On the side of the road.

Blackened Opportunists
Float circles in the sky,


Making hungry faces

At something

That has died.