Sunday, August 8, 2010
Bubbles
Bubbles take the shape that requires the least amount of effort to maintain. A lot of things are like that.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Lewis Carroll
In this poem by Lewis Carroll, the first letter of each line spells out Alice Pleasance Liddell...the little girl for whom he wrote Alice in Wonderland:
A boat, beneath a sunny sky
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening in July.
Children three that nestle near
Eager eye and willing ear
Pleased a simple tale to hear.
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me phantomwise
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear
Eager eye and willing ear
Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie
Dreaming as the days go by
Dreaming as the summers die.
Ever drifting down the stream
Lingering in the golden gleam
Life, what is it but a dream?
A boat, beneath a sunny sky
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening in July.
Children three that nestle near
Eager eye and willing ear
Pleased a simple tale to hear.
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me phantomwise
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear
Eager eye and willing ear
Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie
Dreaming as the days go by
Dreaming as the summers die.
Ever drifting down the stream
Lingering in the golden gleam
Life, what is it but a dream?
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Sharpie Permanant Marker Pens
I got this huge set of Sharpie pens from Sam's Club. So then, I had to draw on something. I started with this t-shirt.
I washed it and the colors ran just a little. Maybe soaking in cold water first would keep the colors from running.
I'm going to go find something else to draw on now.
Laundry-Folding Table
Here's a project that has been sitting around for over a year. I made this table with 2 X 4s and 4 x 4s left over when we built our fence. It's out on the back porch where we can fold our clothes on it.
Yesterday, I finally finished painting and varnishing it.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Sunflowers
For the past couple years, I have walked around my neighborhood up and down the alleys and saw the most beautiful sunflowers in other people's backyards. And I said to myself, "I'm going to have sunflowers this summer, too."
In May, I cleared out a strip of land between our fence and driveway. It's a 16-inch wide strip that was overgrown with grass. I dug out all the grass and created a flower bed that was a couple inches lower than the surface of the driveway. I planted a row of sunflowers there. I chose a variety of sunflower seeds. Some are the small brownish red ones that have multiple flowers on each stalk. And I planted some giant ones that grow to over 8 feet tall.
The first flowers have started to bloom now:
In May, I cleared out a strip of land between our fence and driveway. It's a 16-inch wide strip that was overgrown with grass. I dug out all the grass and created a flower bed that was a couple inches lower than the surface of the driveway. I planted a row of sunflowers there. I chose a variety of sunflower seeds. Some are the small brownish red ones that have multiple flowers on each stalk. And I planted some giant ones that grow to over 8 feet tall.
The first flowers have started to bloom now:
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