woolgathering

cards

2009-11-10T04:46:26Z

A season of meetings, seminars, and conferences. A season of business cards. They remind me of those autumn leaves I'd collect and bring home as a child - brightly colored, ready for some project, a reminder of a particular moment...

folder

2009-11-09T04:48:19Z

This is a folder I made for myself - just slightly larger than a folded sheet of letter paper. I've found that I like carrying a printed two-week schedule around with me, so that I can add appointments, jot notes, and plan projects, but I don't like how tattered the papers get in my daily travels. Recently, I tried a home-made half-size manila folder for a week or so, liked it, and so a few weeks ago I made myself something slightly more permanent, covering some heavy cardboard with bookbinding leather.

headphones

2009-11-08T04:37:34Z

I remember seeing a young woman on the bus, looking down at her hands. Thought at first she was knitting, then realized that she was untangling her headphones. Misplaced these last month, and found them again yesterday, in the pocket of a jacket I hadn't worn lately.

scarf

2009-11-07T04:59:38Z

After a mild fall, the weather is shifting. Heavy frost this morning, and a scarf was not too warm on my walk.

cord

2009-11-06T04:57:39Z

I notice how connecting things with their cords has become an end-of-day ritual: plug in laptop, plug in phone, plug in camera. Everything wireless is tethered for the night.

hand

2009-11-05T04:40:09Z

My brush pen was nearly out of ink - the pale line along the page had a new texture.

remains of tea

2009-11-04T04:43:57Z

A view of what was left behind in the mug. I used some of the tea as a wash, and found that the color dries to a much lighter shade.

white sock

2009-11-03T04:54:22Z

Child's white sock turns up in an otherwise mixed load of wash.

waterbrush

2009-11-02T04:36:02Z

Here is one of my Niji brand waterbrushes. These brushes have hollow bodies which you can fill with water, just as you might fill a fountain pen with ink. I love the way they let me paint anywhere.

pumpkin

2009-11-01T03:06:19Z

On the front porch, its carved face looking away from us, toward the street below.

haircuts

2009-10-31T03:40:07Z

My son asked me to give him a haircut - it was really more a trim - but by the time we were done, there was enough cut hair on the porch to reconstitute a small mammal. (I got my hair cut today as well, but not on the back porch, and someone else swept it up.)

flask

2009-10-30T03:36:44Z

Part of the Halloween costume for Marie Curie. Yes, we found out that radium is white and then oxidizes to black, but it was much more fun to put a color-changing LED and tissue paper into the flask. Poetic license.

black tights

2009-10-29T03:34:24Z

Now we are back in the season for black tights, so I've replaced the pair with the hole in one foot. (There's only so long you can color a matching dot on your foot with a Sharpie before you realize that you have moved beyond thrift into eccentricity.)

seltzer

2009-10-28T03:22:37Z

Cool and fizzy. As people around me begin to catch the flu, I'm hoping that I'm old enough to have some antibodies, and that frequent hand-washing will keep me well.

apple

2009-10-27T03:57:51Z

Another local one. I can never remember the names of the varieties - but this one was good.