Spring, sprung, sprang, sproing!

According to the sun, it’s spring. There’s a CBC story all about the vernal equinox, how this has been an unusually warm winter and, most depressingly, how most people won’t notice the arrival of spring in Canada because nothing has really changed weather-wise. Very enthusiastic and positive people, climatologists. I, however, have found proof positive…

Because we’re Canadian, eh?

Friday evening was a usual Friday; that undefinable combination of exhaustion, relief, relaxation, dread of the weekend errands and frustration that the weekend seems already to have been gobbled up by a dozen events or occurrences. I was wandering the web in search of entertainment and found the National Mitten Registry. You read me right….

Quick sketch – playing with pastels

Pastel dye sticks on cotton, 30″ x 20″. Thought I’d post this because a) it’s the first time I’ve used pastels since Junior High School (that’s grade seven, when I was 13 years old, or nigh on twenty years ago, take your pick) b) It’s something interesting I’m working on c) Kathy Molatch gave me…

Just for kicks…

I get a real kick out of seeing what brings people to my blog. Often, the list of referrers is full of folks I know, but the news ones can be quite intriguing, especially when they arrive via a “next WordPress blog” link or somesuch. Even more amusing are the search terms that somehow dump…

Perspective

I was bumping around from page to page and from blog to blog, obsessively checking my email for no good reason the other day when I happened upon an interesting entry by Dups (Duleepa VerylongSriLankanNameThatICan’tRememberandRarelyCouldButAlwaysThoughtSoundedCool)  about his photography and perspective. Defintely worth a read and think-through. It got me thinking (hold the snarky comments, please)…