Monday, 18 May 2009
Sometimes you just see people and their vehicles in traffic, and you have to make up the whole backstory to go with them. Sometimes you have a little more info, like an insight from bumper stickers. Here, we had the Harley jacket, the bike itself, the anti-helmet headgear, and, in the next block after this red light, he turned into a Buffalo Wings bar.
What we have to guess is whether it was a long or short night.
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Perfect evening for watching the sun set out by the pool…and then the ’skeeters came out, so we decamped to the balcony, and the sunset extended for hours.
Thanks, M!
Friday, 17 April 2009
Found murals in the restaurant at the State Farmers’ Market—yeah, same trip earlier this week—this from the entry area ceiling—Stone Mountain and paddlewheeler. Of all things.
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Don’t mind the mildew….
One keyword we have in iPhoto is pattern/textures, and I’m not yet sure what to do with most of those images. This is a fine sample….
I find this oblique light quite cheerful. This was the porch of a place we rented one southern-Winter weekend years ago in the mountains in NC. We had a cooler with champagne and cheese and crackers and had a heck of a time! And the hiking was pretty fine, too!
Perhaps I found this image appealing this afternoon because I noticed for that the light is really lasting longer. Hurrah!
Saturday, 8 November 2008
When I first saw this shatter, it was scattered across two lanes, generated I suspect during a late-night event where neither party called the cops. When I took this picture a day later, it was all in the gutter, glistening in the sunshine.
And, flipping through channels with less promising programming, I have learned I should worry about blood sludge. Gad, and I thought it was seasonal affective disorder or something….
Monday, 3 November 2008
Okay, KW, here ya go: a picture series from yesterday’s hike.
BTW, the image above is looking through the not-falls—the drought and general autumnal conditions mean there wasn’t enough water to make even a trickle over the outcrop….
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
I swear, just when you think you’ve figured out the aesthetic of the central Midwest, someone (or someones) collect a big pile of detergent containers and makes…a lovely fish!
Thursday, 9 October 2008
I love that daylight comes and stays and goes here from all angles, without the limits we experience at our urban abode. I love finding low-angle shadows here and there, in the beginnings and endings of the day’s light.
Friday, 5 September 2008
Here’s the label on the 122×56 inch slab….
One lead to the next….
You see, I got to visit the place where our vanity and tub deck stone will be cut. The bonus was I got to be the opinionated client about how to lay out the pieces.
First, we picked out the stone several weeks ago, when we picked out the bathrooom tile. I think it’s called Cherokee marble, and it’s maybe even from a Georgia quarry, so even though we’re raping the landscape for our interior decorating, we’re being the building trades equivalent of “locavores.”*
Today, I met Dick-our-wonderful-contractor over at the stone place. We checked in and received our special costumes for visiting the floor. (It’s been a long time since I was in a factory….)
The lovely Sonya escorted us deep into the cutting area, where we met Stewart, who did the layout. He’s a genius. The stone has two really cool inclusions, and he helped me get one into the vanity top and one into the tub deck, and fit all the other tub deck pieces into the slab such that they will look just right. I think we’ll get a backsplash for the vanity out of it, too!
I’m just so tickled; the pieces are better than I’d hoped!
So that was the first new experience. And here’s the second. I* made a gallery of pictures from my adventure. Check it out below! (Click on one of the thumbnail pictures and you will see it larger, and then can page through the assortment.)
* Not so with the shingles, for example.
** With help from The Guru. Obviously.
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Ohio barn photo turned into stitch pattern…. (Two views.)
It started here: I’m reading Brunonia Barry’s The Lace Reader. I became curious about bobbin lace, the lace Barry refers to, which I’d vaguely heard of, but didn’t know much about. I sought out Wikipedia, not surprisingly.
Then I started musing about the long-ago past, when I did a bit of bargello needlework*. Of course, there’s also a bargello page, too!
Then I started thinking, gee, it’s a natural to have a computer program optimizing needlepoint (etc.) designs.
Of course. A bit more googling, and I even found a free trial version of a program for the Mac, called Stitches. And downloaded it.
Well, I did find a bug or two, but successfully imported a picture and had it allocate colors that could be converted into threads and needlework. Wow! The program says this image is a mere fifty-five colors….
* Proof lies in the four pillows on my couch, presently covered by protective plastic sheeting….