scribblings from historic downtown McKinney, Texas: altered art, local color, flora, fauna, cemeteries, irrational commentary, improbable-and-unlikely diy home projects
CHILL! is the motif for my summer snacks and also the cover of my new home-made journal. you can’t see it well in the photo but there’s a found beer bottle cap that says “chill” on the palm of the hand. I’ve got to fight that summer heat with cold stuff. My favorite snack is […]
First spread, wherein Kubla decrees his will…..
I did this spread with a completely different background and ended up ripping out both pages and starting over. I saved a few elements and re-used them and this was the result. I had been trying to duplicate a cool background I saw in one of my art books […]
A happy result of the wrong turn I took on Sunday was ending up on the street next to this water tower. I’ve had a project in mind to shoot a bunch of water towers in this area but haven’t had a blue sky for a while as a background. When it’s overcast the towers […]
Sometimes it pays to get lost. You think you’re somewhere and then you think you’re not. Then you know you’re not. It can make you nuts, you know? Or it can make you change the way you look at things. That’s what happened when I took a wrong turn yesterday.
I started work on my first […]
It rained hard again last night. A year ago we were beginning to be desperate for rain; now we complain about it. “The lakes are full,” we say. “Stop, already!!”
We humans can’t seem to be happy with things. The weather, our possessions, our selves. We want things to be different.
One of the traits Buddhists aspire […]
I rescued a turtle on Sunday. I spotted it crossing the road about four blocks from the building where I work. It was huge! It was headed toward the parking lot of a large apartment complex, so I put it in the car and when I got to work I released it in a field […]
I finally got the 3D items glued to my pages for the “Around the World Chunky Swap” on Flickr. This was a really fun project but I got stuck at the end. It was as if I didn’t want the fun to end. I put the pages aside, and before I knew it two weeks […]
I haven’t been able to get into a creative groove this week. Things are gearing up at work for the summer crush and I’ve been spending most of my time at home ripping out the three layers of linoleum covering the bathroom floor. Dare I hope that we’re past the half-way point on its renovation? […]
It’s got a stinky name, but this pretty little bug is a good guy to have in your garden….maybe almost as good as ladybugs. I saw a tiny spot of red (less than 1/8 inch) moving among decomposing leaves and clods of mud and was able to get a few shots before I lost it. […]
It’s good to have visitors but it’s also good to get back to your regular schedule. I’m not good about keeping up a journal when my schedule’s all screwy. I’ve managed to do it a few times while vacationing, but when I read it later it seems to be a pretty sparse piece of writing.
Anyway […]
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