More about the Pumpkin, and other stuff

 I titled this "thud" the sound of something heavy dropping! Got any good titles for it? It's more in the Tiny Town series and it's hunt club, a companion piece to the card I did a couple days ago.

 By turning the de Kooning painting on it's side, I was able to make a nice background for this jumping girl. I titled this one "joy." What else?

 The sun light filtering through the glass block window in my honey's studio, created this shadow on the wall. It was like another piece of art work was hung there. Light works.

The sky was so blue, and the clouds so nice. We are cloud appreciators. Caught this image while driving (I wasn't the driver) east on Broad St. I was able to crop out the rather large building to the left so the view seems somewhat rural.

Wednesday update and some more Tiny Town!

 We had some small pie pumpkins out in our garden as decorations for the halloween party that didn't happen (it was cold and rainy that night.) A couple of squirrels  have been very happy, they are looking mighty healthy! It's been fun to watch them tackle these.

 Driving home from Spanish class, I stopped to look at the geese on Fountain Lake (an tiny artificial lake.) They were very quiet.  See what a gray day it was today? It's been raining but it's warm. Very odd, it's December!

 Here's our stash of holiday cards that my honey pulled out of the drawer. The green ones in the center were a gift from a letter writing friend who scored a 90% off sale on cards. So nice of her to share. And we will mail these off as we want to support our postal system as much as possible, as well as wish everyone some cheer.

 Here's some shadow play from Saturday in D.C. The sun was so bright that we got some nice crisp outlines.

 Even though my Mail Art 365 project has ended, I'm still sending out Mail Art and Tiny Town is still going. Today's cards show the amazing news: open-faced sandwiches appeared from a courtyard.

Tiny Town residents were confounded by this, and the mystery of who made them remains to this day!

#197, a, and more

 Wanted to change things up a bit for myself today. I used cardboard from a cereal box as today's card blank. A bit of colored paper, some stick on dots (hole protectors?) and eyes from a magazine,  a page full of eyes open and closed, a really good find!

 #197 made me think of counting sheep and the open eye one just seemed so green.

 Duckie was trapped in the deep end by the yellow noodle. It couldn't figure out how to get around it.  Chilly water today!

I like when the sun is strong and the shadows are so crisp. This is at the pool. We'll miss it, as we're going out of town for a few days. No more early morning swimming for awhile.   I'll be posting using my mobile phone!

The #38 series and a cool shadow.

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 I didn't get down to making Mail Art until this afternoon as when I awoke I was feeling like my cold was getting worse. I stayed low energy and pumped myself with homeopathics and tea. By Afternoon, I felt like going into my studio to make some art.  I started with some of my topographical maps as background and then using the 3 rule (a section of color counting as one) I made these three in the #38 series.

 It was fun to find that I had more legs in my stash and more cars. I have even more cars to use up.   It'll be interesting to see what I make at the end of the year, when most of the scraps are gone. Right? I'm assuming that I'll use it all up.

 Looks like this man is dropping down into the convertible!

We're having some work done in our house. Yes, more work. This time, we had the window on the west side of the house covered over with wall board. It looked out on the house next door, only 24" (61cm) away from our house, so we had a shade on it. Now it's just a plain wall and we'll put up a display shelf. When I walked past the ladder today, the shadow looked so nice to me that I had to photograph it.   

With Mom

Before I left home, I captured another shadow of my hat (I'm obsessed with these shadows!) Here is my luggage, packed and ready to go. I packed very lightly, knowing that it'd be warm at my destination, and it is...so no hat shadows from L.A. Here's mom in her usual place doing her usual thing. She is happy, cheerful, and says "thank you, dolly" whenever you do anything for her. How sweet is that?! She'll be 96 on the 19th! I'm a heck of a lucky gal to have mom with me so long, and hopefully giving me longevity and cheerfulness genes.

Some more snow fun...

On Sunday, I got out and walked my pup (he didn't like it) around the block. I found a strong stick to use as a walking aide and put on my cute Ignatius hat! I love it, so Dr. Seuss! Today, the sun is so bright and at 40F the snow is starting to melt. I went out, shoveled the front steps (grunt grunt grunt) and broomed off the car (more grunting) and caught this shadow of myself on the neighbors front retaining wall. Pup went out into the yard and did some exploring. Without the usual smells, it's a whole new world out there for him (I think.) the bird house on the fence had a snowy hat. This will all be a memory in a couple days and the snow predicted for Friday will erase every last trace. So I'm enjoying collecting memories of a snowy Richmond VA.