BIRD WATCHING/BIRD ARTIST Genevieve Jones

OAK TITMOUSE

What a thrill to see this new bird in Nichols Canyon on a walk 

CEDAR WAXWING 

I saw two of these in a high far tree - thank goodness for my excellent field glasses. 

 Genevieve Jones was a young woman jilted by her suitor in Ohio in 1876.  Inspired by Audubon, she began drawing birds' nests, because Audubon had drawn no nests.  When she died suddenly of typhoid, her family completed the work and published Illustrations of the Birds' Nests of Ohio.

I think these beautiful, poignant.  She never married and had her own nest, so she painted them until she died much too soon, a quiet unrecognized artists' angel.