It’s called OpArt, you can see the pattern here. It took me – oh, about 6 months to make… I fear that my new blogging hobby has put a crimp on my knitting time – just a bit. I used Sublime – cashmere merino silk DK, and a lot of it. More than the pattern called for actually. It’s knit… (more…)
Mini-garden makeover in progress… BEFORE Once upon a time, until maybe 4 years ago, there was a huge pine tree in the middle of my backyard. You can still see this tree on the google map… it was a biggie. Word on the street (previous owners & neighbors) was that this tree was struck by lightning and split in half. … (more…)
Here we have Yellowstone again – my inspiration photo for the old bathroom remodel. This photo of the Grand Prismatic Pool has so many colors in it – it could inspire more than one room in my house… I like this palette because it has a cooler end and a warmer end… that mimics nature in fact; warmer colors for… (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…)
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…)
So, you have to imagine that if I spend an inordinate amount of time visualizing my home and it’s surroundings then I might do the same with the journal to which I post. You may have noticed that I’ve switched things up around here – and in the process, I’m realizing that before too long – I’ll probably go ahead… (more…)
This is a photo from the Grand Prismatic Pool in Yellowstone National Park. What a cool place to visit. I did fieldwork in Wyoming for about 11 years before I actually stepped my foot inside Yellowstone. I finally had my opportunity to do a little geotourism there during the summer of 2007. My daughter was 3 at the time –… (more…)
OK – maybe I’m preaching to the choir here – but I just have to bring it up. Say you’re like me, and that the little TV attached to the elliptical at the gym is always tuned to HGTV… and you’re at the mercy of what ever home show is on – for the next 45-60 minutes. If you’re lucky,… (more…)
and then, if you turn around and look behind you, you find… Oh, yeah… that’s the old bathroom in Houston. It was gigantic by our neighborhood’s standards. The previous owner told me that, before they turned it into the master bathroom, it used to be a sewing room for the German sisters that lived there prior to them. From the… (more…)