Posted in Review on August 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Children make you want to start life over.[Muhammad Ali]
This lad is not the owner of Get-A-Tech, an IT company in Wales. He is the year-and-a-half old son of the owner. Wonder what he’d be doing in the photo if his dad was an astronaut or a car salesman? He is also my grandson so an [...]
Posted in Learning to Blog on August 27, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.[G.B. Stern]
… so I’m thanking all of those folks I don’t even know who open my window on the world wider and wider.
When I started my WordPress blog, the first thing I noticed is that it has a nice administrative console and it fairly easy to use. I saw [...]
Posted in Knitting on August 19, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
[John Gardner]
During the hours I spend working on my computer, I use the COMMAND+Z keys (I think that is CONTROL+Z on a PC) so often to undo errors that it has become an automatic motor skill. COMMAND+S (to save) is another movement that is automatic. During the [...]
Posted in Favorite Things, Thoughts on August 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I do get to placesjust when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.[Ansel Adams]
Photographer—Wesley Smith, Charlotte, NC
I really like this photograph. The geometry of the bridge is framed by the organic softness of nature. The colors are complementary. The play of light and shadow is interesting. And, I am honored to say, the [...]
Posted in Favorite Things, Review on August 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend.Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.[Groucho Marx]
When I take a mini-vacation (a few stolen hours in a day), one of my favorite destinations is a book. I just finished reading these two. Each is a part of a series, both are mystery stories [...]
Posted in Favorite Things, Review on August 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Because of what you do, life is not the same … especially not for whoever is the fortunate recipient of your wonderful care.[James E. Miller]
The Willowgreen Publishing web site is one of my favorites because, although it sells commercial products, the major portion of the site offers a generosity of spirit to site guests. View [...]
Posted in Thoughts on August 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl. [Princess Margaret]
When I started this blog three weeks ago, I did so as an experiment and learning experience. I saw it as a public journal of sorts and selected topics as they came to mind. Like Topsy, it just grew. I still intend to [...]
Posted in Thoughts on August 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.[Dorothy Parker]
[Photo taken at St. Fagans, Cardiff, Wales]
Windows, doors, gates, portholes — all of these inflame my curiosity and make me stop to think. If you stood on my left as I shot this photo, you’d see a path to a manor garden. If you [...]
Posted in Thoughts on August 8, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Love is an act of endless forgiveness … [Peter Ustinov]
I’ve been thinking about the difference between loving someone and liking someone. I think love is a gift of eternal caring that I offer someone. It endures no matter what — even if they don’t accept my gift. Liking someone, on the other hand, is a [...]
Posted in Drawing on August 7, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.Art is knowing which ones to keep.[Scott Adams]
This is a carbon-dust rendering — a method used to give a continuous-tone, photographic effect to a drawing. The shaded areas are built up with a brush dipped into carbon dust.
I rendered this monkey skull drawing at a Smithsonian scientific illustration [...]
