It’s here again, the Common Thread Give-a-way. Every month one of us 5 artists : Jane McMillen, littlehousehomearts.com, Nancy Bariluk-Smith spinningglassstudio.com, Kim Gifford, pugsnpics.com (check out Kim’s Ipad drawing of Jon and Red on her site) and me and Jon give away a piece of our work. It’s always the first Monday of the month.
This month it’s Jon’s turn. He’s giving away a signed and matted (to fit an 11×14 frame) photo of Fran and Meg at the Old Bedlam Farm. Now the rules are a bit different because Jon doesn’t take comments on his blog. So you can leave a comment on my blog if you’d like to enter to win. I’ll announce the winner (chosen randomly) on Thursday morning. Good Luck!
Hi Maria and Jon, Thank you for the chance to win this awesome photo of Fran and Meg. Best regards, Deb Naydan
Hi Maria,
Happy Monday! Thank you for the opportunity to participate in these give-a-ways!
Mary Jo
Oh how I’d love to win this for my chicken themed kitchen… and because I do love Jon’s photography too. Thanks for the opportunity!
Please count me in, and thank you!
I also just want to say I love the pic today of Red working!
I would Love to win one of Jon’s wonderful photos. I really enjoy checking them out every day. I still remember when he first started taking photos . A night and day difference.
Love this!
I would love to have my name entered for the print. Many thanks!
I enjoy viewing all of Jon’s photos. I hope this is the right spot to enter your give away. Thank you so much for the opportunities all of you share on your websites. — Jan
Hi Maria,
What a delight it would be to own Jon’s photo of Fran and Meg. Please enter me in your
Give-a-way. Thanks. Karen
This picture reminds me of home. i grew up in iowa on a big family farm and my Mom raised 500 chickens each year. We butchered the roosters and kept the hens. My Mom loved her chickens and I used to hunt the eggs daily and help clean out the chicken house. This picture brought back some great memories with my Mom. She passed away two years ago but raised her chickens into her 80’s.
Thanks for the memories
Jon My chickens are incredibly smart. They also love the refreshments I bring them as rewards for laying eggs. Our 8 Plymouths and rhode Islands produced four today, but then our temperatures are not as cold as yours as our elevation is only about 3000.
Just came across your blogs recently and am loving them. I would love the picture. My blog is not up anymore but I was the Country Chicken.
I have the perfect spot for that beautiful picture!
Breathe in: Hello moment.
Breathe out: I am here.
Yes, yes, I would love to have one of Jon’s photographs. I have a chicken cross-stitch piece and carved chickens, so this would fit right in.
Checking in for your wonderful Common Thread Give-away.
Thanks.
I would love to win the photograph of the chickens.
I absolutely adore chickens and Jon Katz. Fran and Meg will look fabulous in my farmhouse style kitchen that I am in the process of putting together. I am a huge fan of Jon Katz. I have quite a few of his books and most are signed by him personally. I used to live close to B&N Clifton, New Jersey and would pop over whenever he was there signing books and hanging with his dogs. I met Rose and Pearl and maybe Lenore when she was a puppy. It’s been a few years now. I moved to Wilmington, North Carolina a few years back and I don’t think he tours down here very often. I read his blog most mornings with coffee and my two dogs Leonard and Phoebe hanging around my feet. I’m a textile artist and I work from my home studio making clothing made from vintage lingerie. Not really sure what the comment is supposed to be about other then “I just love Jon Katz and I would love to own one of his photos.” Thanks Monika
I think all artists appreciate the truth – spoken in an open way, especially when it comes to living an honest life, with oneself and the universe. I think Jon Katz does that.
Love the photo and I enjoy reading your blogs…
I truly love this picture. It really captures these chickens in seemingly purposeful motion.
I would love to win, Maria!
I would LOVE this print. I am a follower of your blog as well as Jon’s. Keep up the good work!
I like Fran and Meg’s attitude in the picture. Birds with a purpose!
Love Fran and Meg
As a young child, I spent many hours sitting in the chicken yard, taming the hens. They stayed by me and we dug in the dirt together. My mother took a few photos of me holding hens just like these in my arms. I’m smiling right now as I retouch that precious old memory. Thank you for sharing your work with the world, Jon.
Had the privilege of meeting Mr Katz a few years back, would love to own a piece of his art! Please put me in the drawing. Thank you!
What a cool shot! Wide angle and down low? Love the pov!
Beautiful chicken pic, please enter me in the prize draw
Thanks, Hannah
I love all the barn and animal pics that you post . I love chickens. I am getting 8 chicks February 8th. There will be 4 Amerucanas, 3 Buff Orpingtons and 1 Silver Laced Wydacotte. . I would love to hang this picture over my fireplace. Maybe I will be lucky.
I love all the barn and animal pics that you post . I love chickens. I am getting 8 chicks February 8th. There will be 4 Amerucanas, 3 Buff Orpingtons and 1 Silver Laced Wydacotte. . I would love to hang this picture over my fireplace. Maybe I will be lucky.
Hmm…I wonder, if I hang a picture of 2 chickens on my wall, will either of my border collies try to herd them?
The books Jon wrote at the “old” Bedlam Farm were my introduction to him, his writings, his blog, eventually to you and even to Mary Muncil’s blog. The way Jon can put his admiration and affection for his animals into his writing is what shines thru. Yes, even for the chickens. Peg
Love the way the birds mimick the buildings – pick me!
Oh Fran and Meg! I miss the old red hens. Hope that I win.
Somehow I can’t picture Jon laying on the ground to capture this shot/angle =o) I would love a chance to win this print!
Hi, Maria and Jon,
Sign me up! I would love to have this print hanging in my home.
All best, Sue
As someone who lived a farm life in rural South Africa for many years, and who still hankers for the richness and sanity of that life, I love Bedlam Farm Journal. I especially appreciate Jon’s attitude towards the animals, their spirit presences and the gifts they bring – and then their deaths. The arrival of Bedlam Farm Journal in my email in box every morning is a joy.
Love the picture of the chickens taken at that angle. Makes them seem larger than the buildings behind them and therefore so in charge of the world!
I would love such a beautiful pic of Fran and Meg!
chickens are earthy creatures
and remind me of Home
this image to me
is all about Home
Earth and earthy things
and the life in all of it
thanks for the fun game
and sharing about your lives/work
I would love this print to give to a good friend moving to Maine.It would be a lovely reminder of life in rural NY
I’ve never been one to follow blogs, but then I started reading Jon’s books and his blog, and then enjoyed his photos even more. Now I’m hooked and every day at 4am, as soon as my feet hit the floor, I pick up my phone and read Jon’s blog. There’s no better way to kickstart my morning!I’d love to be chosen for the chicken dance photo so I can enjoy Jon’s work on my walls.
Fran and Meg look like two little old ladies on their way to Bingo. All they need are hand bags slung over a wing and a little hat perched on the head.
Only Jon can make me smile when I see a chicken.
Come on Fran, one more lap around the barn, I”m determined to lose this baby egg fat by Easter!
“Chicken Little, the sky is falling:”
She said: How silly. Who would believe such a thing?
The other she said: Some human, I’ll bet. They’ll believe almost anything.
I love the reds in this photo. I have exactly the right place to hang this photo!
I just adore his photographs! He is so talented and it really shows just how much he cares for all the animals. What a wonderful giveaway!
Strut your stuff!!