Two Harriets

excerpt from A Rabbit's Middle Way

Two Harriets
obviously different
 yet the same bun

 opposites 

       are 

           the same

                    only

                            the middle

                                  is 

                             different

                           from 

                                 either 

                                         extreme

                                                       jump in!

Over Due and New

First and foremost I have been having fun with ANALOG filters and frames.

This is the first photo I Analogged, I was feeling nostalgic for Hermes. At long last I received a photo of Hermes with his new bunwife, unfortunately is was a poor print out so I can't share it. Well, I guess I could, maybe in my next post.

And here is an Analogged Harriet, this photo was, in sense, saved by the filter with brought out the darks, before the whole thing was very monochromatic. Harriet has been living on her own between main pens. Sydney has always chased her, but recently Harriet has been thumping out it. I am hoping it is somehow a step to combining her with Amelia.

And here she is, I love what happened to this photo. Already a strange one now it looks like a Victorian portraits.

And Sydney, we almost lost Sydney on Friday. Thursday evening she skipped her greens but seemed fine otherwise, it is something she sometimes does with no ill effect. Friday morning she still seemed to not be eating, but I had to go to work. By the afternoon she was getting cold and lethargic. I made an appointment with a rabbit vet I did not know. Her temp was 92, rabbits should be over 100 up to 105. There were no blocks in her stomach, but it is dangerous to feed a cold rabbit. Towels warmed on the heater did the trick, she perked up, had some assist feeding and by midnight was boxing with Amelia through the fence.

Tyler as art bun and ladies man.

Our second foster, did I not say no more fosters? this is Bernadette. She is full of piss and vinegar. The most vocal rabbit I have met, honking, grunting, whimpering. The vet could find anything wrong with her lungs, which I wondered might explain some of her noises, and thought it most likely "behavioral". She'll be appearing on Disapproving Rabbits sometime this week, and that will probably be the only thing she approves off.

And finally Radish, he is getting more friendly and decided he loves to be petted, we are working on being picked up and carried...

Next time: Rabbit Massage, Hermes and His Bunwife and whatever happened to the Water Dragon?

Costumes

All the rabbits are working on their costumes, which of course have to be homemade using the materials at hand.

Tyler is thinking of going as a Dead Bunny, definitely very scary.

Harriet thought it would look cool and scary and kinda, I dunno, steampunkish if it looked like she was pierced with a cardboard tube.

Work in progress for that one.

Amelia would like to go as that popular Santa Cruz attraction The Mystery Spot, where gravity seems to defy the laws of physics.

Possibly a little too conceptual....

Sydney and Hermes are still working up some ideas.

Everybun Must Get Stoned

Do forgive the poor quality of these photos, but at least they do illustrate the point.

Sydney demos another therapeutic placement of the magical healing stones; this balances two sides of the body, the Yin and Yang.

Harriet shows how to gently rest one's dewlap on a stone to cool the upper jiao (upper part of the body in Chinese Med lingo) for better meditation practice, the second lower stone serves to root the treatment in the middle jiao (stomach).

The frog is not technically a stone, but Amelia is very close to her frog and seems to derive something from that proximity.

Also, an interesting aside, that might help other buns. I have been in contact with Basil's human, you remember Basil, the Flemish Giant? anyway she established by trial and error that Basil was allergic to hay (to be more precise the DUST on the hay) and it was manifesting and sometimes runny eye and sometimes slight reddish around his sweet, sweet eyes. She now takes his hay outside and sort tosses it in a colander before feeding and that seems to take care of the problem. How cool is that?

Today Around Here

Sydney is making use of the small stool.

Harriet communes with an effigy.

Let's not forget that it's Tocktober.

Harriet's Turn on the 4th of July

She may not have a white cottony tail like somebuns, her's is soft gray on the bottom and jet black on top ( top not shown).

She is fast, never been caught by Sydney, who tries every morning before breakfast as a training exercise.

As a dark agouti her fur is incredibly soft, it's like petting a baby chick, don't be fooled she's serious business.....she survived in an urban setting for a minimum of 3 weeks during the rainy season.

Today is June 14th 2011

"Today is June fourteenth

two thousand and eleven

and these are my mittens."

Apologies for missing some posts there has been much driving and crisis dealing and like, but all the bunnies are just fine, so that's OK.

6/6/11 3 out of 4 by the DS

top to bottom Amelia, Tyler, Harriet 6/6/2011

This

This is a rabbit drinking water charged with a Tibetan Mantra.

And it is also Harriet on the first of June two thousand and eleven.

Forward

Harriet 05/23/2011

Double Up

Blogger was unavailable yesterday, I hope no one or bun was harmed by their lack of Bun-A-Day.

When you are a Spot your shadow is your sibling.

Sydney and Tyler 05/13/2011

Harriet enjoys going out on the patio in the evening.

Harriet 05/12/2011

I finished the first 12 prints for the Baren Forum Tsunami Relief Project.

Doing small batches works best for me, eventually I will have 31 reasonably OK ones.

Detail of the print, the Crane cries a bloody tear.

We are finding out that everything is worse than we have been told,

how much worse is still not clear.

Ways

Outside

Tyler 05/07/2011

Inside

Harriet 05/07/2011

Inside Inside

Amelia 05/07/2011

PS new rubbing of Moku Hanga for Inspired by Japan:Tsunami Relief Project

Not the real colors, added block and some other elements as well.

Wind

Fore to background:Tyler, Sydney, Harriet 04/29/2011

Answers

The soft white bellies pictured in the Under post were, to wit, Tyler periscoping and Amelia with paws on the fence.

Harriet 04/19/2011

Harriet may not have a white belly, but she is assuredly the softest bunny of the bunch.

PS if you are not already a follower, go ahead and join the throng! It's a rabbit party for The Year of the Rabbit!!

Tail Tale

Today, 04/13/2011, Harriet, applied her tail to two different rocks in different locations at different times.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Spring Light Alights

Tyler 04/03/2011

Tyler 04/03/2011

Harriet 04/03/2011

Harriet 04/03/2011

Controlled Co-Minglement

Like the locks of a canal or, more accurately the multiple gates of a cattle shoot, I can control where a bun goes, or more or less. This afternoon the opportunity presented itself to have Harriet and Sydney shut in their pen and Amelia and Tyler sharing the rest of the warren. All photos were taken today 03/30/2011

Amelia checked out the facilities on "The Other Side"

and moved on to more chinning.

After a good while I shut Amelia in her pen and let the other girls and Tyler have a go at her non-pen territory.

Sydney chinned the Buddha and used the willow tunnel.

Harriet enjoyed Amelia's under the desk fort/meditation area

and settled in for a nap.