It wasn't supposed to snow this month… (5/17/11)
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| Broken oak |
It snowed more than this though.
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| photo from May 15, 2011 |
But not every spring...
Labels: 2010, 2011, fall, garden, living here, spring, weather
Fabric dyeing & dye-painting, dress designs and sewing, textile pattern design, t-shirt designs & mugs, jewelry making & design, graphic design, color theory, drawings, living with wild animals, cats and feral cats, weather, gardening, photos & photoshop, politics, and anything else I happen to be thinking of.
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| Broken oak |
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| photo from May 15, 2011 |
Labels: 2010, 2011, fall, garden, living here, spring, weather
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| Photo May 15, 2011 |
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| Large pollen cones on Ponderosa pine May 3, 2011 |
Labels: 2006, animals, living here
Labels: 2013, family, living here, old house, spring, summer, weather, winter
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| Koi pond, morning May 14, 2013 8:30 am |
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| Wild roses April-May 2012 |
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| Raindrops on dogwood May 7, 2013 |
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| Sugar Mouse out on porch, Oct. 25, 2010 9am |
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| Rex in blanket Oct 25, 2010 10am |
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| Photo taken Nov 1, 2010 |
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| photo taken 2011 |
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| Midnight Garden virtual batik - my fabric design at Spoonflower |
Labels: 2011, design, fabric design, me, Spoonflower, tjap
I drew this back when I was just learning to draw on the computer.
Labels: 2006, 2011, computer drawing, me, t-shirt design
This is Pandora, through the window, out on the roof, a couple of years ago. On a windy day. In early spring.
I took this photo a couple of years ago in Nevada City. Must have been about this time of year, since the creeping phlox are sheets of color around town now, and some smaller tulips are blooming.
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| Tiger (Musketeer) on my jacket - afternoon Dec 10 2009 |
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| Tiger (Musketeer) and Pandora in chair (with Bob pillow) - taken Dec 30, 2010 |
published 12/26/2011
This photo taken June 3, 2009. (really?)
I took photos of this same iris yesterday, May 8, 2011. It's been a warm week; the apple trees and daffodils are done blooming, hawthornes (that dreadful weed) have started. This weekend it's been cool. This iris and one more on the South side (palest lavender-white, both shorter earlier varieties, are in bloom. Along with, around town, the deep red-violet shorter, antique, early-blooming one.
Taller types, and the ones on the other side of the house have not started yet.
The title is from a haiku.
Reminded of things Japanese by a visit yesterday to Kodo Arts, an ephemeral seller of Japanese antiques. Gorgeous furniture. I found a couple of little fabric stamps - probably destined to inspire virtual batiks.
Once, that haiku was the cause of my being locked into the college library just before Christmas vacation!
I had it only in translation - I wanted the original in Japanese. I was reading Tale of Gengi (translated).
So, searching for the Japanese original of the haiku, I was in a back aisle on the top floor of the college library in my home town, in the Japanese written in Japanese section. Since I don't read the language, this was not simple.
I had been there for a couple of hours, sitting on the floor. (Ah, youth.) I guess I had been pretty quiet....
But they didn't make an announcement, or even dim the lights, when they closed early and left. It was still daylight.
I came out of the stacks to find myself alone and locked in. The day before vacation.
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The denouement was anticlimactic - there was a phone; I called Security.
Oh, the haiku? Slightly altered translation:
Dead my old fine hopes
And dust my dreaming . . . but still
Iris blue each spring.
Shushiri
(Shushiki? His name appears both ways.
I can't find the haiku book my Dad gave me, when I was in high school, before we went to Japan.)
see haiku - public domain file, trans. Peter Beilenson 1955, from http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/jh/jh02.htm
Labels: 2009, 2011, flowers, garden, living here, me, spring, weather
And right in front of our eyes, this very large bird, rising from the pond with a medium size koi.
Labels: 2011, birds, campus, living here
Pictures taken on April 26, 2011.
Labels: 2011, birds, campus, living here
This photo is from spring 2003. It was taken with a film camera, so no handy reference to the date, but I think in early May, after all of April had been cold: snow, rain, hail, freezing. I remember the apple trees were blooming in May.
Labels: 2003, 2011, living here, spring, weather
Spoonflower is having a contest for black and white designs, entry deadline May 3. I made this on April 21.
Labels: 2011, computer drawing, creativity, design, fabric design, graphic design
Went up to the campus hill this evening to look at the gorgeous clouds, and as I got out of the car, I said "The sky doesn't fit in my camera!"
Photo Oct. 12 2010.
This photo was sent to Grandpa (John Hubbard) by the teacher, in 1944 or 1945. She folded it to put it in the envelope to send. I Photoshopped it for class a few years ago - the original version is below, folds and all.
Labels: 2011, California, fashion history, grandpa, Photoshop
I have been designing fabrics all along, just not posting about them. I just uploaded this design to Spoonflower about a week ago.
Labels: 2011, design, fabric design, quilt design
It often does in early April. But the forecast was only saying scattered rain showers.
These pictures were taken Oct. 4 2010.
The kittens first appeared Sept 29, 2010. They were 3 weeks old. Mama cat, Patches, had been hiding them in another cupboard, (purring and squeaking from inside the cupboard). She brought them out to this cupboard in the pantry. This picture shows 3 of the four kittens: one dark tabby, looking at me, and there are 2 lighter grey tabbies, and one grey tabby with white.
Tigrr and my 2 remaining cats, Pandora (in back) and Buddy together on the chair with a pillow from Cafepress with the image of Bob on it.
Photo of Patches taken in the living room window, Nov. 4, 2010.
Labels: 2011, garden, living here, weather, winter
A picture of Sugar Mouse from last summer, when he was happy being able to be out on the screened porch, along with his friend Patches (when she wasn't in heat).
This is Rex. He's a kitten. In fact, he is a kitten of Mom's cats, Patches and Sugar Mouse.
Labels: 2011, cats, kittens, living here
Last year casts a shadow of light as well as darkness. Of enhanced attention/understanding, as well as turning away from things I don't want to look at.
This picture is from 12/5/2009, 11:02 am.