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January 1, 2019, Tuesday, Year 15 Daedee & Dancer: Nod to God, Day 1

Posted by Lisa LC on Jan 04, 2019

By Lisa Loucks Christenson

January 01, 2019

Today I went back to work on my Struggling for Existence Documentary. This is a story told from personal observations that shares wildlife facing their challenges to live, their interactions with each other, how they cope through the seasons, man vs. nature, ethical and illegal trapping, poachers, baiting, illegal hunting and fishing. It's a documentary that I've been working on since 2005, starting with my first gift of a powder blue bullet shell casing, and over time, at least another one hundred strategically placed spent shells and bullets, countless recordings of guns going off within feet of me, weird men lingering around my vehicles, and worse. The game seemed to be to get me to report the strange incidents, discredit me in every way possible. I guess it worked, but I stand, still, knowing God saw it all.

The shells were propped in front of my daily stops, interfering with, and changing the shots I took daily on my Walk the Burn documentary. Placed as a marker, usually before they cut the

Lisa's Books on Jeff Kiger's Heard on the Street

Posted by Lisa LC on Dec 02, 2018

Heard on the Street: Another used bookstore adds to Rochester's bibliophile portfolio

1/9/2008, Day 1, Year 4 Dancer & Daedee: Snow Falling on Eagles

Posted by Lisa LC on Nov 11, 2018

Dear Bald Eagle Friends,

Thank you for your constant encouragement and timely words to begin my year four of the bald eagle project.

My uncle Festus died last night. The last thing I expected for today was to be heading into the woods. I expected to be packing my truck and heading south.

Now that the day has almost passed, looking back, I would almost think my uncle Festus was with me and Donny. I will miss you Festus. You know I loved you. May you watch over me on this year four project.

I started out today with just the intentions of scouting. Instead it was a record day for photo opportunity. Donny (my bodyguard), he watches over me, him and Paul, but today he was my good luck charm as well.

I went with the Mayor Donny to scout a new nest in the pair of eagles territory. His wife Judy had spotted it a couple days ago. Yesterday I got a call from him asking if I knew about this new nest. He told me I better come down and check it out. My eagles would expect that.

Of course, I had to come down to the eagle project area. I had to just see if my eagle pair was building a new nest, or was there a possibility one of their eaglets had returned and were building?

I picked Donny up at his house and we drove the short distance. Sure enough, there was a new nest. I noticed it as I took a bend. I may as well say this now. I am purposely leaving out location details, and roads, and landmarks. I am doing this for the protection of the eagles, and myself. I've had my share of unwanted crimes while trying to do a project I feel is my plan from the Lord, but mostly, it's to protect the eagles. Reporting crime tends to bite you in the backside.

This new nest was unoccupied, but newly laid, fresh sticks told me someone was building there, and that someone was likely in the area now, gathering more sticks.

I wanted to show Donny a couple other nest locations I'd been watching. On the way, I spotted, to my amazement, a migrating pair of trumpeter swans who were likely en-route to Monticello, Minnesota, to join the thousands of others who will be passing through Minnesota over the next several weeks.

Lisa Loucks Christenson's Hallowinks Halloween Blizzard: Cryptid Hideout

Posted by Lisa LC on Nov 04, 2018

Lisa's Inktober 2018 sketches (in ink)

Lisa's drawings were created on 2x2 sticky notes and were compiled into a book that hit #3 Amazon's Hot New Releases, and a few best seller categories.

The story follows V-neck Vulture as he's lost in a blizzard and has to find his way out of Cryptid Hideout.

2005, Year 1, Dancer & Daedee: The Eagle Nest Coffee Bar & Cafe,

Posted by Lisa LC on Oct 23, 2018

Lisa has just completed a three-month journey in the field with more than one thousand hours logged, two jars of Jiffy peanut butter consumed, more than ten thousand miles driven and hiked, and over thirty thousand images taken to document daily life in the marsh, two including bald eagle nests and eaglets' special relationship with their parents. A poignant, true story about the struggle for survival, the bond between lifetime mates, and the parents devotion to raising their young. Heavily illustrated, this daily journal of an author-photographer covering an outdoor beat, is both a documentary and an inspirational journey.