Turtle Point
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Turtle Point
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This piece of rock is owned by an environmentalist - a friend of mine. It is perfect just the way it is. The slopes of marble are a favourite for turtles with just the right angle exposed to the morning sun. Solar energy is vital in the energy budget and reproduction of the turtle. There might even be some Blandings turtles that use this point.
Turtle Point is the southwest arm of the land of Long Reach. These narrow fingers of marble separate the branches of the water of Long Reach below Jim Day Rapids. Long Reach is part of the important habitat of Red Horse Lake. Investigation in 2018 revealed that lake trout may just be successfully spawning and reproducing in Red Horse Lake. The fish finder reveals some large fish populations in the depths of Red Horse Lake.
The important issue for sensitive lake trout is water quality. I go as far a picking up buckets full of Canada goose droppings on our property so that the excrement does not find its way into the watershed. Experimentation has shown that strings of flags like those found on used car lots can be used contain geese. I cut a couple of acres of clover that is fenced in with these flags. The geese are encouraged to graze and leave their poop behind. I have counted as many as 100 geese on the feeding side of the flags. There is lots of soil to filter the excrement before it finds it way into the waters of Long Reach. I need to replant the clover every fall as it is a favourite for everything including the bears, turkeys, deer, skunks and porcupines. Sadly I do not see honey bees much anymore.
Land is habitat and not a commodity for profit...
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Comments (3)
Raymond G Deegan
Beautiful artwork, your style and choice in colours are fantastic.
Phil Chadwick replied:
Your encouragement means a very much to me my friend. Thank you. I am a solitary artist and that might influence how I paint. I greatly admire the work of others but need to be me when I work with my brush. Thank you!
Bruce Morrison
Phil - I love your work and the description are a "must" read as well...I relate to the environmental issues very much as we have so many of the same problems, as well as others here on the prairie in the middle of so much agriculture. We have a Red Pine on our acreage - standing right outside my studio; it was planted by the first homesteader here in the 1880's...it was a magnificent tree, hit hard by herbicide drift last summer. I will admit I find myself speaking to it each day...I guess trying to encourage it to recover. I'm being told it has "aged out" and I'm afraid it will be gone in another year or two. The planet is so fragile yet we're always trying to defend the remnants from those few who only see profit and short term gain...at the expense of the rest of us. Look forward to your beautiful paintings each week!
Phil Chadwick replied:
Thank you so much Bruce. I recently read Trevor Herriot's book, The Road is the Way. It is a great but challenging read - he has a much larger vocabulary. He touches on habitat loss in Saskatchewan and industrial agriculture. Truly sad and politicians are not leading the way. Eco-artists are at the front line. Sad to hear about your red pine... but concerned about breathing in herbicide drift too. I love you work as well. You are a terrific artist. Paint on!
A Hillman
Absolutely beautiful, Phil, and the description is awesome, too. Fascinating about the turtles and your clover lot for the geese! Amen to, ''Land is habitat and not a commodity for profit..." Bravo, Mr. Chadwick! Fantastic work! l/f
Phil Chadwick replied:
Thank you Sunny... That point is less than a kilometre paddle from my studio. It is beautiful. A lawyer-developer wants to turn it into a subdivision but I think he has been stopped.
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