knows nose
November 3, 2007
Nov 3
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
A different horse, with a black rimmed nose. Black on the edges, tan at the end, shading into deep dark, rich brown on his head and body.
watching out
November 2, 2007
Nov 2
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
I had a much bigger eye from this horse, but I had to cut it strangely and then it looked really creepy instead of interesting. I am seldom glad to have a smaller version of any picture, but I was this time.
Alice is off at a sleep over, Aerin will be tomorrow night, Al and I are going to visit, and then stay up late and watch a movie. Maybe.
brown, take one
November 1, 2007
Nov 1
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
November is dedicated to coming to grips with the color brown. I know that many things that I love are the color brown, but I keep thinking of them as some other color. Foxes and this horse are not brown, they are red. Leaves turn colors, like red and orange and yellow unless they simply aren’t trying. Tree bark is gray. Labrador retrievers are supposed to be black, even though the creamy ones are beautiful.
Chocolate is brown but I think I’m going to put that off for a week because I just ate so many too many M&Ms that I can’t face the chocolate concept. Coffee is brown, and tea is frequently brown unless we are exploring the newer special issues. Brownies are (almost by definition) brown. Most horses are some form of brown, as are their eyes, a gorgeous purply brown that defies description. Horse chestnuts, regular eating chestnuts, figs and many pears are all brown. See, I am slowly talking myself into parts of brown.
My biggest issue at the moment is entirely mental. I can’t think of a color complement to brown. The color across from it in the color wheel that makes it pop and sing. Blue has orange. Pink and red have green and vice versa. Purple has yellow. Black and white complement each other. Brown is in the middle of the color wheel, brooding. It is what happens when you mix colors you didn’t quite mean to, when you rinse your brush when using water colors. Blicky, slightly slimy, mud colored brown. This is what I have to get past.
boo
November 1, 2007
Oct 31
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
October 31, 2007
Things to do with Pumpkins besides carve them
Oct 30
October 30, 2007
Oct 30
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
One door left for October, and I’ve had that one planned for months… You’ll see why tomorrow.
Red Kate and I had a case of the sillies on the way north. First we brainstormed ways to make laundry more appealing to men: over-power the washer, paint it black, add chrome, disable safety features, incorporate a V-8 engine, add flames, or airbrushing.
And then we came up with Pimp My Stitch. This had us in hysterics the rest of the way. Things to do to a (relatively unsuspecting) sewing machine, that included: thread company decals, air brushed unicorns, or dragons, or buxom females in chain mail brassieres, or flames, a mini disco ball to hold the thread on, fuzzy dice on the presser foot lowering bar, LED lights chasing around the base, the strange free-wheeling hubcaps adapted to the hand wheel on the end… there were more, but they have faded since we thought of the flames. And the dual chrome exhaust. We couldn’t figure out quite what to exhaust – fumes are hard to come by when sewing – but I thought it might just be a dummy thing, and you could drop dry ice into a little water in the bottom and get fog even if you didn’t get a great rumbling roar.
Circus class was fun too. We agreed it was not possible to hide anything from anyone you were doing partner acrobatics with, as we grabbed each other’s feet and placed them where we could balance on them.
Kate is getting a decent forearm stand:
although she sags when she’s tired. Today we did hip keys on fabric, which hurts. But then it gets better.
Poor Al has a mouthful of metal. His dentist managed to talk him into braces, and has already managed to pop two of the little doo-dads off his teeth, one with a sandwich at lunch, and later one with the water-pik after chinese food for supper. He may not last the full two years. Heck, at this rate, he may not last the week.
Ah well. As Andy pointed out, sometimes life is a tea party, sometimes it isn’t.
current desk state
October 30, 2007
I was trying to take pictures of something else, and wound up with pictures of my desk (or table or workbench or what ever I call it du jour) and ironing board (which is a crucial part of the workspace):
and it made me think of this cartoon: 
Which is really far more organized than the actual thing itself, as you can see by comparing them…
One of my goals for being 47 is to clean out the workroom. I wrote down four goals around my birthday. Others were to go sailing next summer (and take the family with me, not all by myself, really), and to be able to do a crossback straddle (in the fabric at circus). Rest assured that I will boast vociferously if any of these do happen.
Oct 29
October 29, 2007
Oct 29
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
today’s postcard, and a remedial one for Sat. (down one post)
Gotta go, Alice is sick.
Oct 27
October 29, 2007
Oct 27
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
lunar real estate
October 29, 2007
I’m looking for pictures of the moon for the October page, and I find this page for the Clementine Lunar Image Browser, where the part that makes me happiest is not the large array of pictures available but the disclaimer.
This sentence: "Disputes arising from the purchase of lunar property from such organizations must be resolved with the seller directly."
OK, now I want to buy some lunar real estate. Maybe this piece, right here. I like the look of that crater riiiight there.
Lee Thomson 