I love this…. go ahead, you can watch it again… I’ll wait. Dwight and I have a lot in common actually. I used to listen to a lot of heavy metal… I can see how Mötley Crüe could psych you up. I used to crank up the music to be ready to face my day. I think I need to… (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…)
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…)
My Yellowstone photo has inspired me to see what other color palettes that I can find in my field photos. This will be the first of a series – here it goes. This is a photo from Firehole Canyon in southwestern Wyoming. You can’t tell from this photo – but this picture was taken from a pretty decent elevation. It… (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…)
This is it. A fancy ‘garage’ attached to an historic house in my neighborhood. I’m drawn to it. I like the white-tan-gray stone foundation – I like the gray – almost gray-blue color of the structure. I like how crisp the white window frames look against the solid gray clapboard siding. Look – there’s even a transom window over the… (more…)
$258,000.00 This is the preliminary estimate for our addition. It includes everything. It is more than our home cost us to begin with. It is also about $100K more than I had hoped to pay. So, now what? The way I see it, I have a few choices. Option A: Scrap my plans and live comfortably in my cute little… (more…)