I Have This Great Idea...

...and it'll taste just like chicken!

Summer Storms

This just taken outside...

Grand Plan

Inspired by Keri Smith's "Create-A-Thing-A-Day", I've decided August will be "Photo-A-Day Month". If you'd like to participate, shoot me an e-mail and I'll add you to my links list.

Until then, photos from the Christmas in July party are up, as well as some weekend fun with John and Andrea.

Crazy-Eyed Galusha-Lunatic

...it's a crazy-eyed day.

2 Camels, ≤ 8 Cows, 14 Goats

I'm house-sitting right now (the house of "saber-tooth tiger pancake" fame). While having the walk through before they all left, Michelle was very careful to make sure that I had spares of everything–she apparently knows me all to well! Unfortunately, while rushing out the door for an emergency print job, as I shut the locked door, I realized I had left my keys and all the spares inside. (As a point of defense, I normally keep my keys in my bag for such a time as this, and this was the first time I'd left them up on the key rack by the door.) Alas, this did not occur to me until I heard the door click and looked at my empty hands to finish the locking up ritual. Mortification flooded my mind as I realized what I had done. I sheepishly called Gary & Michelle to alert them to my self-inflicted predicament. The solutions recommended involved breaking into the upper story and calling various people to see if they had a ladder I could borrow to do so. In the midst of phone calls, it occurred to me to try the old "credit-card-in-the-doorway" trick. And what do you know? It doesn't work only in the movies! Resipiscent, I retrieved my keys and locked up. As I walked to my car, however, I realized my apparel was mocking me. Tonight's t-shirt had big bold letters reading: "THINK".

Oh well. I think I might've lost a few cows in the dowry by locking myself out...but also inadvertently regained them by breaking back into the house.

Mommy, the Neighbors Want To Play With My Head, Again

Our house has been a hubbub of activity lately. Wednesday nights have become our "unstructured chill night". One never knows what to expect, but they're always delightful. This last Wednesday, after dinner with some lovely dinner guests, we were joined by a delightfully creative bunch for several rounds of Telephone Pictionary. It's been a long time since I've laughed so hard!

*Note: The pictures are best viewed at their original size. Click on the "All Sizes" button on top of the pictures to see the details of our jocularity.

Big Imaginations

I love hand-illustrations. The human element in them is so prevalent and accessible. It's like being given a personal invitation to take a peek into someone else's muse. Or sitting on someone's porch and quietly watching the sunset together, enjoying the audible silence and relishing the visual "WOO-HOO!"

Three illustrators come to mind:


Mattias Adolfsson. Yes, yet another great thing from Sweden! His imagination is so wide! His blog is worth perusing through several pages of his whimsical, futuristic Moleskein illustrations.


Keri Smith. Collage-extraordinaries! Her colors and textures are incredible. I always wonder what it would be like to watch her at work, how she gathers her materials and ideas. She's also written up some fantastic articles on creativity and I highly recommend her 100 List.



Craig Garrison. While Craig specializes in the digital realm (and all of his work is fantastic), I particularly enjoy his sketches.