ATF: Angel's Trumpet
Sep. 3rd, 2007 08:16 amIt's three days until the anniversary of the beginning of Life 2.0. I am anxiously awaiting the end of September 6th, and the beginning of September 7th. ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
foomf can probably relate that anniversaries are not linear, but spiral. I am having annoying anxiety attacks about could-have-beens, which aren't really better than what-happeneds.
Summer and I took a walk around the yard yesterday, enjoying the beginning of a light rain. We know it's turning to fall here, rain now lowers the temperature instead of turning everything "smuggy" (muggy and sticky, Summer's word). We were trying to identify volunteer plants that have sprung up since last year. The yard has bounced back nicely, perhaps smoke and ash are good fertilizers.
A lot of the plants that were here when we bought the original house have died off. King, needing something to do after the fire, hacked down the three holly bushes he never liked anyway, since two of them were fire-damaged. This gave other plants a chance to establish themselves. The biggest surprise was the Angel's Trumpet.
I planted the Trumpet two years ago. It bloomed briefly, then died back. Not being much of a gardener, I let it go and didn't replant. Imagine, if you will, my surprise at find it growing like crazy twenty-four months later on the, uhmm, other side of the yard. Lots of blooms, too, and looking far better than the original plant.
I am working on digital art using Pshop and Illustrator. So far, it's slow going as I push the metaphorical rock up the learning curve, but the results are pleasing.Thank goodness Iread Don Seegmiller's book, "Digital Character Design and Painting," or I might have given up over glitches. Those, and the Ugly Stage, which Seegmiller says lasts from about 17% into the painting until almost the end. It's a stage that has to be pushed past.
Lastly, do you know it's takes HOURS to move12GB 24GB from a laptop to an outboard drive? I DO NOW!
That miserable length of time yielded many MB of music I thought I'd lost and was going to have to appeal to iTunes for a re-down. I found Ratatouille! Hurrah for windows.old!
PPS: VISTA STILL WORKING. ALERT THE MEDIA.
foomf can probably relate that anniversaries are not linear, but spiral. I am having annoying anxiety attacks about could-have-beens, which aren't really better than what-happeneds.Summer and I took a walk around the yard yesterday, enjoying the beginning of a light rain. We know it's turning to fall here, rain now lowers the temperature instead of turning everything "smuggy" (muggy and sticky, Summer's word). We were trying to identify volunteer plants that have sprung up since last year. The yard has bounced back nicely, perhaps smoke and ash are good fertilizers.
A lot of the plants that were here when we bought the original house have died off. King, needing something to do after the fire, hacked down the three holly bushes he never liked anyway, since two of them were fire-damaged. This gave other plants a chance to establish themselves. The biggest surprise was the Angel's Trumpet.
I planted the Trumpet two years ago. It bloomed briefly, then died back. Not being much of a gardener, I let it go and didn't replant. Imagine, if you will, my surprise at find it growing like crazy twenty-four months later on the, uhmm, other side of the yard. Lots of blooms, too, and looking far better than the original plant.
I am working on digital art using Pshop and Illustrator. So far, it's slow going as I push the metaphorical rock up the learning curve, but the results are pleasing.Thank goodness Iread Don Seegmiller's book, "Digital Character Design and Painting," or I might have given up over glitches. Those, and the Ugly Stage, which Seegmiller says lasts from about 17% into the painting until almost the end. It's a stage that has to be pushed past.
Lastly, do you know it's takes HOURS to move
That miserable length of time yielded many MB of music I thought I'd lost and was going to have to appeal to iTunes for a re-down. I found Ratatouille! Hurrah for windows.old!
PPS: VISTA STILL WORKING. ALERT THE MEDIA.
