...amazingThursday, June 2, 2011
Leaf Little to the Imagination
From The Daily Mail, artist Ju Duoqi created these works from nothing but Chinese cabbage leaves:
...amazing
...amazing
Podcast from The Electric Tree on "The Safe Sock Talk"
From The Electric Tree:
pic from Craftzine
Important things to remember when giving hand knit socks in your safe sock talk:
1) Know the washing (and drying) requirements
2) STD's in socks (sock trauma)
3) The ED of socks (erosion disfunction); talk openly about it so pilling will not occur
Stay safe.
pic from CraftzineImportant things to remember when giving hand knit socks in your safe sock talk:
1) Know the washing (and drying) requirements
2) STD's in socks (sock trauma)
3) The ED of socks (erosion disfunction); talk openly about it so pilling will not occur
Stay safe.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Texas Road Trip over Holiday
It was time to see family. So by air and automobile, Texas was the destination. From Colorado, where our temperatures were in the 40's (F) to Austin with high humidity in the 95+ (F) degree range, it was a definite change of scenery.
From Austin to College Station, from College Station to Waco, from Waco to Austin again: nothing but troubles driving. I got lost more than a few times, but I surely went past many little cemeteries along the way. And the scenic drive to College Station was lovely. It is all in how you look at it. Listening to Mazie Dobbs and Pardonable Lies made the drive time shorter.
NEVER trust the Bing maps! The Bing map was ten exits off just in my first venture out from the airport to Round Rock, Texas to visit the parents at Parkview Meadows where they recently moved. An hour wasted on I 35 just trying to find the correct roads. Grrr.
I took lots of pictures. Just a few here..
Above is an oil painting of Texas bluebonnets that I remember from my earliest childhood that Aunt Mary has in her newly remodeled apartment where she now lives with her grandson and his family.
In all, I got to see both brothers and SIL, one nephew and his darling young family, my father and his wife, my sister, my aunt and various distant cousins, the youngest of whom was six months and an absolute doll.
Remember the blanket knit for him? (Ravelry reference is on the bottom of the post)
It was good to visit and catch up on family issues. It was even better getting home. You know what I mean.
NEVER trust the Bing maps! The Bing map was ten exits off just in my first venture out from the airport to Round Rock, Texas to visit the parents at Parkview Meadows where they recently moved. An hour wasted on I 35 just trying to find the correct roads. Grrr.
I took lots of pictures. Just a few here..
My brother Chuck and sweet SIL Karen McCarroll
Chuck has his own blog that you can reference at this link. He calls it I'm Not Drinking O'bama's Koolaid, so if you are also in this mind frame, you might get a kick out of his editorial snippets and cartoons displayed. He is the brother with all that artistic talent that I previously referenced on this blog post
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a picture of their east Texas evening skyline in College Station, TX
Aunt Mary Mays who lives in Waco, TX
Above is an oil painting of Texas bluebonnets that I remember from my earliest childhood that Aunt Mary has in her newly remodeled apartment where she now lives with her grandson and his family.
In all, I got to see both brothers and SIL, one nephew and his darling young family, my father and his wife, my sister, my aunt and various distant cousins, the youngest of whom was six months and an absolute doll.
It was good to visit and catch up on family issues. It was even better getting home. You know what I mean.
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