Welcome from The Bear Den

Welcome to the Deane's Creative Arts blog, a place for updates related to my professional website at deanescreativearts.com.

I've recently expanded into the exciting world of web design, but I plan to keep one big foot in outdoor photography and writing. My home page is created with the thought of illustrating the kind of design I love -- functional design that is elegant in its simplicity.

Check out the Yorkie Valley site that I built for Cindy Chandler, experienced breeder of Yorkshire Terriers. I've also designed a site for Black Rock Gallery at Wintergreen Resort (http://www.blackrockgalleryonline.com/), a high-end gift shop where my photography is sold.

My blogsites are also an outlet for updates on the latest observations and happenings at my home at the southern end of Shenandoah Shenandoah National Park. I live in the Blue Ridge of Virginia overlooking the Shenandoah Valley, with the park's black bears as my sometimes rowdy, alway entertaining neighbors. I did not get a photograph of the bear cooling off in my water garden, up to his neck in goldfish and water lilies -- I was too busy banging doors and throwing things in an attempt to make his exit memorable.

Some of the photos (the beautiful gardens and the new-born fawn) were taken at my Turkey Ridge Nature Preserve project on the east slope of the Blue Ridge in western Albemarle County.

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Deane

For Deane's photographs of the Turkey Ridge Nature Preserve, click on this link:
Turkey Ridge

Best Western Photos

Taking these three photos to grand opening of Greene County's new Best Western in Dec. 06. They are 33 x 43, largest photographs I've ever printed and framed.

1. Blue Ridge Autumn
2. Maples of Saint Mary's
3. Saint Mary's Wilderness 

Innisfree October

 
 
 
  

View from the Bear Den

 

 
  

Sunset at The Bear Den

 
 
 
  

David's flowers and the old gray barn 

farm office 

Groundhog (Marmota monax) 

American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 

Kniphofia (Alcazar) 

Meadow Fritillary (Boloria bellonia) 

Mallards on Koi Pond 

David Phipps, Master Gardener 

Where's Mom?

A newborn fawn is separated from its mother and surrounded by two-legged beings that smell funny.

The doe watches her vulnerable fawn from just inside the woods
RESCUED
On shaky legs, the newborn fawn scrambles up the bank when its mother emerges from the woods.

Pupmobile

  

The "Flower Moon" of May