And there was wine. Pretty much from start to finish. My weekend away was fabulous – Mom came out to hang out with the kids so that Eric and I could join friends for a weekend getaway to Chicago. Despite the long list of places that you’re about to see – it was really relaxing… I suppose that when you’re… (more…)
Here’s another photo that Eric took. He was literally out in the field for work this time when these colors and textures caught his eye. I’m beginning to see that natural color palettes are synonymous with ‘neutral’ color palettes. Maybe. No wonder most people like them – they’re everywhere. I’m partial to the left end of this palette – looks… (more…)
Gonna have to add Historian to my list. I spent all day yesterday digging around the public library and in the stacks at the Wisconsin Historical Society. My goal for the day was to: Determine who had lived in my house before me Figure out a bit about the land ownership in my neighborhood See if I could verify the… (more…)
This is tiny… really tiny… each one of these dots is actually 0.06-0.08 mm in diameter. That’s 60-80 microns across. I took this photo on a camera with 5.6x zoom that is attached to a microscope set at 10x magnification. It’s a pretty cool pattern – the dots are fairly round, with sharp edges – some run together a bit…… (more…)
Beauty at a truck stop Ahhh… the memories…. We were driving home for the holidays – the first stop on our 750-mile-in-one-day-commute (with-two-kids-I-might-add). It was an otherwise crappy stop (literally – the son had a bit of a blowout) along the highway in western Indiana. Eric had been driving, the weather was terrible, the kids were complaining, Clayton was a… (more…)
Another myspace relict to see the light of day. Words as relevant today as they were on January 3, 2008: Home is where your heart is, right? It’s where your family is… it’s where you head after a long day of work… But home is also where you accumulate years and years worth of clothing, years and years worth of… (more…)
For real. Here’s how it went down on Thursday, February 11, 2010. I pick up my daughter from school at 3:15… about 1 minute passed by before I heard these words, Mom? We have a Valentine’s day party tomorrow and I have to bring in Valentine’s for everyone. Of course, I should’ve seen it coming… I’m not a fan of… (more…)
I have a dusty myspace page. I’m cleaning house – taking what I’d like to keep, and then divesting myself of this dead real estate. I started an eo-blog on that myspace page – so I’m resurrecting some of those old posts for all to see (at least – more than the 17 friends that I had on myspace). The… (more…)
This is the Gowganda. A crazy cool rock found up in Ontario – the object of my future end table tiles, and the subject of this weeks Natural Color Palette exercise. Geology Moment: The Gowganda Formation was deposited ~2.3 billion years ago. It has been interpreted to represent to deposits of a glacier into a lake – the darker background… (more…)
It’s OK, you can admit it. You don’t even have to hide it, at least not in my house. Just don’t get too carried away. Remember that you have to share As part of my experiment to not be so ‘distracted by life‘ – the computers have been turned off after school. This has caused my family to look at… (more…)