eyes for the dreamy

nunta de piatra (the stone wedding), 1972.

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concurs (1982).

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And an indoor garden startup/ painting update on Friday!  Thanks for being so patient with me.  This cold is the pits and well i can have a tendency to be a major procrastinator, deadly combo indeed.  Also, been feeling a little uninspired lately by my little old town but I did manage to snap a few photos on Tues. (below is a teaser of some of the photos I will post on Fri.), it got me out of the house.  Cheers to that!  

These r my Thoughts

Definitely not getting any better health wise which I see as a total bummer.  I'm coughing as I write.  Thus, I am choosing to remember three images 1/ From my good friend called The Pacific Northwest

during a beautiful and invigorating spring hike (last year) and 2/ Enoch and nature calling during our Oregon to California migration then 3/ A photo that Chris took of the monarchs at a farm he mowed for a few extra $ when we first moved here to Iowa.  And then lastly an image that I had made earlier today using two pages from my old sketchbook plus some extras.  I'm making things in cyberland but not in the physical realm and I really need to do something about that.  I recall leaving off with 3 or so sketches at least that need to be attended to and some clay figurines that need a paintin'...  See you when I get back with a mini-indoor garden in the works and perhaps more (if I'm lucky).  God I hope get well soon.

So dearest self, see you who knows when but in a while for sure!

It's Quiet Time

This is panellus stipticus.  And it takes my heartbeats.  I'm needing to tend to many things at the moment and a break for a few days seems long overdue.  Hope there's a sweet weekend instore for all.   

*  animated gif source wikipedia.


**  i was having trouble with the high resolution gif displaying.  sorry if the post was looking a little empty.  thanks for looking and see you in a couple!  

Winter in Iowa

 Hello all!  Here are the photos I mentioned last post that I took with my cell phone (apologies ahead of time for photo quality) on our weekend out to check out Smith Lake and Call Park here in town.  Another work update/ post on it's way!  Hopefully this weekend (I'm thinking Saturday).  Happy Winter/ Pre-Spring y'all!  I still am not sure who the readers are of this blog, but I do appreciate and am thankful to you guys, whoever you may be!

  Although the stores around here on the 'Main St.' are dressing their windows for Spring it's just a wee way's away for us living here in the Midwest.  But truly that's okay because I know my son and us as a fam still have a bit more snow adventuring to do.  Over at Smith Lake they place an old car (in this case a 'race car') on the frozen solid waters and have wagers as to when it'll start to sink in.  The person who guesses the right day or so wins a prize.  It's hard to know right now when the water will start melting while there's still quite a few people who are all set up with their ice-shacks enjoying some ice-fishing.  Enoch was super pumped to explore the frozen scene but not at first, he was pretty weary.  We drove our car out on the lake for a short spell.  Then C and Enoch decided to head out on foot.  It was his (little man's) first time stepping out on a frozen lake.