Day: August 23, 2007

radio silence

August 23, 2007

We are headed to South Carolina.

It sounds trite, or snotty, but I am still surprised that we need no passport to get there. It is much farther away, conceptually and psychologically speaking, than Canada. Geographically speaking too, come to think of it.

We will be doing the family thing, with relatives who haven’t seen me for more than a decade, met Al once, and have never seen the girls. The girls want to know what, exactly, we will be doing when the birthday party is Saturday and we will be there four more days. Since I haven’t a clue, I mumble. And buy more books. Aerin has 9 in her bag. Alice has 4 brand new ones, with orders not to crack a one of them until we reach the airport.

We will be back Tuesday. I’ll report Wed.

I’m going in.

mixed messages? media? what?

August 23, 2007


Aug 23
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

After staring at the fronts of sunflowers, I got entranced by the backs. This is a photo printed on fabric, embroidered onto a piece of hand dyed white-on-white fabric. I used the back of the hand-dye to emphasize the colors of it, rather than the spottiness of the white print.

Since it is after midnight GMT, I can post tomorrows postcard as well:


Aug 24
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

tomorrow’s postcard today

Alice was playing Pony Farm again. She really had fun driving the tiny horses. She has been working hard at making a cart for the ponies to pull the dolls, and came up with this for a pair to pull.

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The doll is Marina, the ponies are Impulse and Spirit. Impulse is named in honor of Bay State Initiate, a little Morgan I used to ride at my previous barn. Alice loved him, and was captivated by the idea of all the names in a year starting with the same letter. Since the pony looked related to Nish but not exactly like him (Nish had 3 socks, a white face and one spooky eye) he got a name from the same year.

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Alice, much younger, on Nish. I miss him dreadfully. This is circa 2004, which I usually think is just yesterday, except there are 3YEARS between then and now.