Our brutal Texas summer is just about here. I offer you some lovely shade, in anticipation.
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas
Sharing Shade
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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art (2)
Faberge Egg
Faberge Opera Glasses
Stained glass window behind a King Arthur-type sword
These items are in exhibits at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. They allow photos of some exhibits, as long as you don’t use a flash.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art
Wrong Side, Right Side
Learning to paint with oils is a whole new world for me. (Not that I know how to paint with anything else; I don’t.) I now have a new set of supplies to get me started: canvas pads, brushes, paints, cleaning solutions. As far as I can tell, there is only one way for me to learn things: the hard way.
Example: I get to class, open my instruction booklet and pick up where I left off at the end of the previous class. I remove one sheet from the canvas pad and clip it to the support board, load up my paint and off I go with the current lesson.
Or not. First thing the instructor says when she stops by my station (after I’d been painting a while) is, “That’s the wrong side.”
The wrong side
“The wrong side of what?” I ask.
“The wrong side of the canvas.” She flips it over to show me the difference.
“Oh.” (The art world is safe from me, I can tell right now.)
I clip the same canvas to the support board and start over.
Wow! What a difference using the right side makes!! (That looked and sounded funnier in class.)
The Right Side
Recycled Reads Book Art
Recycled Reads is a part of the Austin Public Library system. Recently, I spied these art objects that used to be books.
A map book
Do you fold down the page to hold your place?
A vase like no other
Eyed Click Beetle
Look what I found in our yard. I had never seen one before (a mystery!), so it took me a few minutes to find it on the Internet. I started out searching for “black and white caterpillars” but that wasn’t even close. Next I tried “black and white insects in central Texas.” Turns out there are a ton of those. The last one did the trick: “black and white insects with eyes on top.” And voilà! An Eyed Click Beetle. I’m glad it didn’t do its click and back flip while I was photographing it. And, of course, those aren’t eyes on top.
An Eyed Click Beetle
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