Back from a while away

I've been traveling and thinking and planning and house and garden fixing, and all of those things have kept me busy and away from my blogs. I want to consolidate things, but for now, I have to admit that I am having the hardest time whittling down my blogs. So, for now, this one continues. I want to keep a fun experimental blog going, and for now this one is my best answer to that desire.
So the good news is that I had a lovely holiday to my childhood homeland. The bad news is that my Polaroid 350 decided to rebel and I didn't get one shot out of it. The other goodness (because I hate to end on bad news) is that my other cameras cooperated, and I have a few scanned and ready to start sharing, and others that I have yet to get developed.
Lots and lots to share from beautiful Texas coming up.
For now, here's a Polaroid:

Desert Travel

Here are some recent desert findings:

Spirals

Valley of Fire State Park

Unfortunate Lizard (rib view)

Unfortunate Lizard (head view)

Singing

I've been doing lots of singing in Indiana so far. Mike's been writing his own music to use as the soundtrack to one of the documentaries, and I've gotta say, it's pretty good. He's been having me listen in, comment on the lyrics and tempo, and sing. He's got me doing the harmony, and it has been a lot of fun. I usually save my singing for car rides or alone-time. So, it's been fun to actually be asked to belt things out and to really give some input. I'm not sure if we'll actually record any of them with my vocals, but either way, it's nice to get to use my voice.

As far as visual arts go: I packed up a total of four cameras to Indiana. I've got two toy cameras, one really nice SLR, and then my fun little point and shoot digital. I aim to use them lots and lots while I'm out here, and I hope to get better at the SLR business. Today after I went on a run around a local park, I got my Holga out of the car and took a few shots.

I've also brought along a fresh new sketchbook, and I hope to put that to good use out here as well.

Some time in the next week or two, we're going on a field trip to the Museum of Art in Indianapolis. I'm so excited.

Life in February

I've been busy. Photographing, doodling, and moving. Life has been full of all kinds of things to do and see and accomplish. It'll be another couple of weeks before the doodles and sketches and little watercolors start showing up on here though.

I promptly followed moving across town with a road-trip to Arizona. So while this gave me loads of new ideas for paintings, and lots of opportunities to take photos, I haven't yet had the chance to get my computer set up at the new place. (I'm not even back at my new place yet!) So, no recent sketches to post, but here are some photos to check out:











The first few are from the Wave, near Kanab, Utah. (Coyote Buttes, to be more specific.) The last two I took at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, Arizona.