It’s been dreary here in the northeast for quite a few days now. There are floods everywhere, with roads being closed, soggy basements, and many grumpy moods. We’re beginning to feel like the fish in this colorful photo taken by Arden!
Mar 152010
Mar 122010
Ani: These flowers ”bloomed” on my computer this week. Spring will really be here in less than 10 days!
Mar 082010
“I can’t do a thing with my hair!”
In honor of the Oscars last night — a little old-fashioned glamour. Tressy doll from my childhood, not quite ready for her close-up. Thanks, Arden, for the photo.
Mar 052010
Heidi: Stop working already and play with me. I’m been sitting around all day waiting. What does a girl have to do to get a game of fetch? I need my exercise you know. I can’t just sit around being cute all day long.
Mar 012010
Ani: Lately, I’ve been thinking about how long it takes to do a painting or make a drawing and sometimes I just want to feel like I’m creating, but quickly. I’ve been thinking about how much I used to love collage and how I gave it up because, for me, it was an excuse not to draw or paint. I love collage, though and can’t leave it behind. So I thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to make one and not keep it? Kind of like performance art. It’s art, then it’s gone. A photograph to remember it by and then, move on.
Arden: As I took the photograph of Ani’s collage, I remembered that we have a lot (and I mean, a lot) of seashells in the house. So I took this shot with my Nikon D90 Tokina Macro lens. It’s a tiny seashell, about an inch long.
Feb 262010
This little troll has been with me since before I was ten years old. For a while his hair was braided but then I let it loose. Now he sits in my china cabinet enjoying the view and smiling at us whenever we walk by. Thanks, Arden, for the photo.
Feb 222010
Heidi with her new squeaky hot dog. I’m sure she would prefer a real one, though!
Feb 192010
If there had been school this week, there may have been a snow day. Though one year, after a “faux” snow day, like the one last week (see here), there was no snow day when we really needed it! Isn’t it pretty? This is my backyard looking as though it’s in the country somewhere, but really isn’t. There is a house hiding behind those trees! But isn’t newly fallen snow so pretty? Especially when it sits on the trees? And the weather was so crisp and sunny. Thanks, Arden for the lovely photo!
Feb 152010
Sometimes when you go looking around the house, there are things you discover again. Things that have been sitting and collecting dust for years and years. Things that you haven’t looked at closely for years. And sometimes, suddenly the smallest little object can seem meaningful. Here is a macro shot of just that sort of thing from a small collection of pencils that I used to enjoy, that I’ve neglected. But I must have thought they were cool back in 1978. And they are still cool now.
Feb 122010
This week we had a snow day without snow. School was closed and we waited and waited and waited for the big, bad blizzard to arrive. The weather forecasts were changing by the hour, increasing snowfall amounts, changing the weather maps over and over again. There was no doubt a big storm coming our way. The night before (no! even the day before!) schools started announcing early dismissals and closings depending on the town. People canceled dentist appointments. Supermarkets were crowded. Businesses planned on closing early.
Kids were happy! Finally, a snow day! Some parents were happy. Some not really. Plow guys were happy. (I wasn’t too happy because I don’t love snow, but I do like snow days.)
Frolicking in the snow.
Enjoying the scenery of newly fallen snow.
Building snowmen.
It was not to be.
But this cute little snowman (painted by my daughter when she was little) always resides in our house, in every season, to remind us what fun an occasional snow day can be for everyone, even if there’s no snow.
This is a macro shot taken with my Nikon D90 Tokina Macro lens.
Object is 3″ tall.