Early in the month, I take a walk where I try to find as many species as possible. Here are some of today’s finds– at least the ones where the pictures turned out okay, and/or I could identify the subject!
Other creatures I saw today were American Crows, Turkey Vultures, and a Ground Skink, some dragonflies and damselflies that I couldn’t capture in pixels.
So far this year I have read three textile books. Two of them even have the same title! but they are very different in tone and topic. Most of the time, my reading is just for escape and enjoyment, and two of these books fit that category. The third was more difficult, but important for […]
Throughout the many years of my weaving life, I have always loved to create mixed warps from odds and ends of yarn. I love seeing the interactions of the different colors and textures as the yarns move throughout the piece. My most recent project followed a design from Celeste Pryde, published in the March/April 2000 […]
It is time for the quarterly reveal day for the online art quilt group, The Endeavourers. This time our theme was “Patterns in Nature.” It took me a while to come up with an idea. I finally remembered that some of nature’s patterns are hidden to our eyes, but visible to birds and insects. What […]
I first heard of habit tracking in an online art retreat. The idea, as presented by the session leader, was simple — choose a habit you would like to build — for example, working 15 minutes in an art journal — then just create a row of little boxes for the days of the month, and […]
In late October, my sewing student W. asked if she could come back for some more lessons. Her grandmother had gotten a new rug, and she was inspired to make a Christmas tree skirt to match. When they sent me the photo of the rug so I could plan, my reaction was, “How are we going […]
I wish I knew why I can’t view these slide shows, either on my laptop or my iPhone. And every time I see your “east-Texas” tag I get Marty Robbins in my head, even though I know he was singing about *west* Texas . . .
Oh, my husband just made up a version of the Marty Robbins song El Paso, for a newsletter I put out for our neighborhood in the Hill Country, and it was really funny, but I had that song stuck in my head for days!
Sometimes I do the pictures as a slide show, because I remember a WordPress helpful hint about the post taking less time to load that way. And I checked it on my laptop after I published, and it was fine, but after reading your comment, I checked it on a mobile device too, and it took FOREVER to load! But I had just noticed the other day that when I read a post with a gallery in it through email, I see each picture in its entirety instead of just the random mix of sizes that shows up in a gallery. SO none of those picture in my post were anything phenomenal, but if you followed me by email too, maybe you would be able to see them. Except now that email has sailed, so you wouldn’t get it anyway.
But now I will not be as quick to do a slide show. I don’t like the fact that you can’t click on individual pictures to see them larger, either.
Great photos, all. Your butterfly captures are exquisite!!
Wonderful photos…you and your camera are coming along really nice.