Fly, Flu, Flown

Today I drove out to the Air & Space Museum for my free flu shot. There's the regular Air & Space museum in downtown DC and then there's the facility located out by Dulles Airport ~ it's like a huge hangar filled with all manner of flying machine. It's, you know, planes hanging everywhere and what not. Turbines, engines, yadda yadda. Wright Brothers...zzzzzzzzzzzzz.



Then I found me some SATELLITES! Holy Mother of God! It's like every gay man's dream of what Mardi Gras should be. Shiney gold and copper, fins, wings, delicate netting spotted with lights! A whole display of gigantic Christmas ornaments...and then my camera konked out. sigh. I get in free. I'll be back. Battery fully loaded....

Let's Go Shopping!

My new motto is: go shopping, take home only photos. Today I took a long walk around downtown. I felt like looking at weird stuff so decided to go to Paul's. It's usually deserted and has a big back room that's far enough away from the girl at the front counter that she'd never notice me taking oodles of photos of stuff I'd never buy at that price.


Paul wanders the globe picking up all sorts of refuse then transports it back to Frederick. Here he stacks it artfully and slaps on a Pier One inspired price tag. One person's junk is another person's photo op.
Yay for Paul! Here is a sampling:





Of course, there are plenty more where these came from by visiting the tiny town link. Not to be missed are the rest of my laundromat photos including those of Lester proudly displaying the sparkly skull t-shirt he thought you'd appreciate ~ as well as a collection of antique spool photos that I especially like. Enjoy!

Time to Sit & Spin, 123!

Fall Color

The leaves are turning a mile a minute around here. Today it's sunny and breezy and I have yet to step out the door! I KNOW! I need to get my ass walking and taking some more pictures. There's a ton of art to be made, though. One of my buyers, Katie is coming here in a couple of weeks with a friend or two. They're going to visit my studio and then I'm going to show them around downtown during First Saturday festivities. My goal is to have art too gorgeous to pass up!


I took some photos of new work in progress this morning that I'll use to update the other blog. These colorful shots are from that batch of a.m. photos. I just finished several more crocus-shaped botanicals that I'll add to my etsy shop later today. They all have pieces of those comic books from India about the life of Buddha in them ~ so I guess they're a series.


On an unrelated topic, and because you committed Facebook suicide, I'll have to tell you here ~ I'm back in touch with Chris Rosendall. He's a friend from way back when who made me mix tapes including the famous Songs to Birth Babies By. He's sending another one ~ actually new cds with songs from "that era." I"ll send you copies...

Words

What my heart does when I think of you:


mum

Staying Warm

The checkout girl at Goodwill and I agree about the economy. If you're really, really wealthy and you've seen your huge investments plummet to slightly less than huge, it must be very frightening (we suppose.) But if you know how to make a quilt out of "big and tall man" sweaters, you'll never go cold in winter. I considered adding some decorative fringe but then thought about The Crow...

Crunching Numbers

This past weekend was incredibly productive. I figured out the whole etsy thing and nearly broke my brain in the process. Whenever I need a break from the computer, I sit down and cut out more botanicals. My goal is to have enough of them so that I can post a new one every single day. I know. That's insane. I'll end up with carpal tunnel or something. Whenever I need a break from that, I go out for a walk and take pictures. Numbers have caught my attention for some strange reason. Probably a subconscious response to financial collapse.


Anyhoo, they're all so stylish and unique. I just may collect all the numbers from 1 to 1000. Deana said it reminded her of Sesame Street. I'm collecting words, too, but that's for a future post. I just hope no one yells at me for standing in front of their house and aiming my camera at their door.


Last we spoke, I told you I was headed off to find a blow dryer. Found one for $1. I have yet to plug it in and fire it up. Scouted around for some interesting books but found nothing worth picking up. Just a whole lot of James Patterson. He sure cranks those puppies out. So glad to be out of the book business...

Blues and Voting

Imagine my surprise when I drove in to Frederick to find the streets either blocked off or packed. Knowing the back alleys like the back of my hand this did not present much of a problem ~ but I knew that I had no choice but to shower, get dressed, and grab my camera. By god, I had landed in the midst of a street party! Weeeee! So, I strolled the streets following the music and taking photos. One of my stops was down on the creek where the Phat Blues Band was playing. Before leaving the stage and the city, the band emphatically urged the crowd to vote. I'm pretty sure I would've done anything this guy asked me to do, if you know what I mean...click below to enlarge. Have. Mercy.
Make sure you visit my tiny town link to see the rest of these pictures that make "festival" seem like shopping at Wal-Mart. In my tiny opinion, that is.