me meme
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
There is a kind of flickr thing making the rounds, where you type things into flickr search and choose the image you like best off the first page. It is basic things, like your name, and where you went to high school, and favorite drink and dessert. I liked how mine came out.
June TIF done
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
All strung out like that they are much more impressive – singly they are eloquent but small (5″square).
I was working from the idea of stories from one’s stash. Like many, that meant all stuff from the stash, unlike many these were all bits I had failed to put away off the end of the ironing board; a kind of stash within a stash if you like.
I liked the image the palette was taken from so I looked for fabrics that echoed sink colors. The pages were inspires by a series of encaustic pieces I found on the web. The woman used text to make striking images. I tried to echo the idea of text with the beads, and realized some of them did look like odd transcriptions. Some reminded me of the little scratch marks when little yellow Woodstock talks to Snoopy.
The pieces are all mounted as pages in a small square book.
What I like about biking in Vermont is that all the roads are either uphill (no biggie, that’s why I have all these gears) or down hill (whoopieee) or running along next to a river.
Both girls have camp in Brattleboro VT for the next couple of weeks. Aerin is helping keep small children from falling off circus equipment, Alice is learning scenes from Shakespeare to be performed at the end of two weeks. I get to have a day in Brattleboro while I wait for them to be done. Yesterday and today I rode my bike. Yesterday was down the Connecticut River on the New Hampshire side and into Massachusetts, then across it and back north on the Vermont side. It was lovely coming back up the river with the wind pushing me along up the hills. Today I followed Rt 30 north along the West River. It was busier than I usually like to ride along, but the river was gorgeous. I got so hot I waded in, bike clothes and all, at my lunch stop. It was cooling as I continued back to town.
I am still working on the June TIF Challenge, I am almost done, and that should be my next post.
no bed times (until camp starts)
no getting up times (see above)
no commute to any where
fireflies
games of Manhunt all over the neighborhood in the dark
taking six (!!!) kids to the beach and sailing (my two, a sleepover friend, plus three neighbors)
how cool the air is in the night (mostly) with the fan organized just right
more fireflies
fresh veggies from the garden (not mine – black thumbs – but the local CSA is across the street)
the smell of the first cut of hay
sailing a tiny boat in a tiny pond
fireworks
driving around with all the windows open
Happy 4th of July for other USans
Happy Summer for the rest of you in the Northern Hemisphere
Happy mid winter for those of you in the antipodes
red x red, 3 x 3
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
some great red things on Flickr
I am busy sticking beads to the pages I made so far, there will be pictures once that project is done, but I may not make it by tomorrow.
In other news, Aerin and a friend of hers and I went to see Primate Fiasco (awesome name!!) which is best described as deranged, New England Dixieland with tuba. It was a great show, with guests, killer clarinet playing and a completely invisible tuba player. I was a huge tuba, and some dancing feet, but only saw the man’s face at the very end. We didn’t get home til after midnight, but since I have ceased to patrol bedtimes and rising times it didn’t really matter.
It has been hot, and sticky, with random thunderstorms. I am deeply grateful for our air conditioning.
June TIF background 5
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
The second iridescent structure. I had to think about how to make both of these, and finally settled on a plan that required I let things overlap instead of tile. Once that was reasonable, they came together quickly.
June TIF background 4
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
one of 2 inspired by iridescent structures in a butterfly wing. I found the original image in Science News
I'm having trouble loading and seeing stuff on Flickr – I hadn't realized how much I relied on it for dealing with pictures. I posted 3 more backgrounds, but I can't see them to tell you about them. Kind of distressing. So there are three more backgrounds over on Flickr, they were inspired by images of iridescent structures on butterfly wings. It took some thinking to make the overlapping pieces come out right. I think 5 of them, the ones that look most related, will be pages in a book, rather than stitched together somehow. I have the cover started, I'll post an image of that too, soon.
In the rest of life, I took the girls, and some neighbors and the Toenail to the DAR pond again. There are no life guards at Swim Beach this year, so you can do anything.
reading tiger
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
I found this on the couch the other morning.
Lee Thomson 