Elf Owl — Giclée on Paper Watercolor red and orange maples visible

red and orange maples visible through the cedar trunks

the golden stamens

A chipmunk has found the cottage deck table — it sits between the terracotta pots

the enormous snowshoe paws sinking only slightly into the drifted surface

Elf Owl — Giclée on Paper Watercolor red and orange maples visibleThe world's smallest owl perches on a saguaro cactus in full bloom the bird compact and round eyed among the cactus spines, a saguaro flower just to its right, a small beetle visible on the cactus surface below. This 1973 watercolour is Glen at his most naturalist: the elf owl, the saguaro, and the Sonoran Desert flora are rendered with the same observational precision he brought to his Canadian subjects. Glen's interest in wildlife was never limited