Yesterday and today were blistering hot. 90 degrees is not a proper temperature for conducting autumn. I drove home yesterday under a sky like blue flame. And I closed the door, turned on the air conditioner, took a nap, and woke up and pretended I was in a log cabin in Vermont getting reading to go outside and start tapping trees. It’s maple syrup time!
Only it wasn’t. I didn’t. But I did sit at my small workbench tucked into a corner of my tiny cottage and glued things to other things. I did take scissors to paper and hum while listening to my playlist. My playlist makes me very happy. Music and visual journaling and air conditioning are the perfect antidote to a sun on overdrive. That and a good dose of solitude. Oh bliss, I know your name!
And well today, among other things, I am making roasted butternut squash and bacon pasta for dinner. If anything can conjure up a proper autumn forecast THIS recipe is surely it.
I can’t wait to start cutting and pasting into my new visual journal. I am 2 pages away from finishing #10. I absolutely can’t start a new book until the old one is finished and I generally work only in 1 book at a time, 1 page at a time. Which is surprising given my general lackadaisical nature. Nevertheless I am planning a small visual journal using these hundred year old book covers. With 2 vastly different sized books I’m thinking I can subdue the compulsion to have everything contained between the covers of one.
Blah blah blah. Hey! Go check out THE SKETCHBOOK PROJECT. Watch the video and look at the featured sketchbooks you can snoop through. Thanks Otto, for sending me the link!
p.s. a fellow teacher sent me this pic of the rogue duck from earlier in the week!
That book! TOTAL decadence. I can’t wait for you to have your way with it. You are much more patient than I am.
If I thought chlorine was good for ducks, I’d just have to get some!
That book looks sooo inviting, you have a knack of finding the ones that want to be re-invented. It is warm here too, was going to rake leaves, but it’s 80 degrees & the Sunday lazies are coming on. Sitting on the deck and reading seems a far superior past-time. Enjoy the rest of your Sun-day.
Want to trade weather? We had our first real snow the other day, it took 24 hours to go away. And it has been raining since then; cold, dreary rain; temperature around 40°F.
the ways of typepad are confounding and without rhyme or reason.
I am guessing. Are the graphic icons by each post unique to that poster? Does Typepad have a particular purpose beyond design consideration here?
You don’t need to peel the squash. Try THIS one:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetarian-recipes/zucca-al-forno-roasted-squash
you can just eat ’em as nibbles. I’ve made this one and his “Spicy roast squash” as well. Great source of yum here.
Speaking of playlists, do you know Pandora radio? I was just introduced to it. … pandora.com, write an artist or song & a playlist is built and played based on shared characteristics. Big fun.
OMG I would trade your weather for ours right now in a hot minute…it’s gonna be in the 30’s here in Charlotte, NC…yuck! Love your “real woman” collaged image…hear me roar…lol I’m doing the Sketchbook Project and I’m freakin’ out about it…my subject matter is “Elephant in the Room”…OMG OMG…there are a lot of “family” issues that I could so sketch about…but I’m afraid they might read/see it…lol wish me luck…I’m gonna need it so bad….
Maybe if I start listening to music again I could something about MY competing voices. I keep aiming for silence, but that hasn’t happened!
Now you normally drink some kind of fabulous cocktail to go along with it..
Gotta love the weekends for serious art time.