sometimes i put an image (or a few) on flickr that i just love with all my heart. but not a soul looks at it or them (according to their “view” counter, which i hate anyway, because i would rather not know, frankly). this was one of three from last night. i couldn’t pick a favorite. so this one. here. redbuds interacting.
would i like ukiah california? or is it too small? if there is walmart, i don’t want to live there, though.
i feel like i am becoming a “photoblog” lately.
ok, i’ll write some stuff. hmmmm…
magazine finished (i think). nada going on at the artTable this week. but having fun playing with images from the short walk last weekend. nothing new on etsy and probably not for the rest of the month. it has been a very very slow month and i feel it. that little extra $$ made me sleep easier. sleeping with the window open is rather nice. although i’m not sleeping well and my neck has turned to damaged concrete again. stress at the office. stress at home. god i’m glad to be leaving this weekend. going to boston to see my betsy and her thesis play. *and* family and david and swari, too. how i wish margaret could come, too. but sometimes it is nice having one-on-one time with the girls, so its cool.
last night i *finally* got to see Marie Antoinette. having just finished reading Abundance, i could hardly wait and had to move it up in netflix. it was gorgeous, although definitely lacking the depth and thought of the book. the book was LUSH. but it was nice to have that visual, though superficial, expression, too. i LOVED the contemporary music. those kids were the rockstars of that period, so it made perfect sense to me. the edginess of it was very cool. and i almost wet my pants when i saw those lavender Chucks in the 18th century shoe lineup. QUIRKY. i love love love weird stuff like that.
well. there. i wrote some stuff.
it was a working weekend, but i did manage to get out of my chair and go for a walk with my camera today. there were some nice flowers, but it is still not quite spring. the tulip trees were already passing, after a freeze earlier this week, but i wanted them anyway. i also saw a dessicated eagle’s head by the railroad tracks. i’m pretty sure. i will have to ask the poet if he agrees, before i make an ass of myself publicly, though. then i came home and had a cooking spree. 2 pans of spinach lasagna, 1 for the freezer, 1 for next week. then i made migas with Organic Sprouted Corn Tortillas and a salsa with avocado. that is what we ate tonight. then i played with my pictures. as soon as i upload the proof of the magazine, we are going to watch a film- Age of Innocence, which i seem to have missed. then i get to go into my bed, which i love and look forward to each day.
it really felt strange to sweat today.
more images from the little nortonville excursion. these are of course, tricked up a little in photoshop, using a texture layer, as i have seen many people doing lately to “vintagize” images. ok, i just wanted to play with it, too. these are the first images, that it seems like it really works. for me, anyway. for fun, i just printed some, on nice photo paper, and they look awesome, if i do say. sometimes i forget to print things, just view them on screen, and am so delighted to see Real Images.
not very much artishness going on this week, although i did work on my new book a little last night. i like it, but it seems to look like everything i do lately, which isn’t *bad* exactly, it is just i keep wanting to try to grow, try new things, and it seems so easy to slip right back into a comfort zone. grrrrrrrrrr. i’ll be fucking thomas kincade if i don’t look out. although i guess if i could rake it in like that, for doing the same thing over and over, i wouldn’t whine for long.
i realize i have been doing this online journal thing for seven years, as of this month. i have a seven-year itch, that is for sure. i have simplified it down to the point where it is rather boring, even to me. perhaps i need to throw in more bizarre personal events and/or thoughts. or naked pictures again? (snicker!) i don’t know! i don’t think i will be dumping my journal, but i might restructure. i will probably stay on livejournal, because there are so many people i like and have “known” for so long. even though so many of them seem to have disappeared (sniff). the community thing is nice. comments are easy, so that a conversation can occur almost. and i like being able to filter personal posts, though i don’t do it very often. but i like my *real* journal on my site, too. i keep resisting making it more bloggish, with everything on the front page. everyone’s blogs look alike now, it seems. i would like to do something outrageous and rebellious. and i wonder about opening comments up? would anyone speak? or just spammers? even though i do this for me, as a personal documentation, and a creative work, too, interaction is pretty nice.
i even have a blogspot, which i like, but only use for posting cheapcam shots and for linking to all the blogspot people i like to read. but i don’t think i will turn that into my real journal, even though it is handy as hell.
mostly i just do NOT want my journal to turn into a walking advertisement for my etsy, ebay or stuff i’m selling online. sometimes it starts to feel like that. kick me! sometimes i long to just write and write, like i used to, but funny, it doesn’t Look Right without an image any more? yes, maybe some rebellion might be in order …
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yesterday traci and i took a little photo fieldtrip to nortonville. i had been there before and liked it and hoped she would, too. it was a bleak day and everything looked rather ugly and there was a cold wind, but we had a pretty good time and it was GREAT to be out with our cameras again. be sure to check her spongebob digicam shots here. they are fabulous!!! then we ate a late lunch downtown and i realized i had not been downtown in almost a month. i guess i should get out more? ha.
i’ll have more images later, after i mess with them. some jamcams, too. and i even used some film. i am beginning to see a few more signs of spring, so i guess it is coming after all this year. some tiny buds on trees and bushes. some daffodils. last week there was even blue sky for a few hours! beyond the small photo adventure, and messing with an artBook for a bit, it has been mostly work, plodding, reading and sleep. same as it ever was! i am ready for a sea change…
