Relocation

Evan and I moved last week to the Minneapolis area. Neither of us has a job yet, so we're both busy scouting out our options, unpacking, opening bank accounts, building up our mental maps of the surrounding area, getting acquainted with the different pace of life...

We're in the midst of suburbia, but it's considerably more urban than the town where I've been living for the past six years. Most of the local establishments aren't local at all, but are chains. I have yet to find a good place to let Rufus run around off-leash. And there's an oxymoronic aura of both isolation and significant lack of privacy.

We have no internet at home yet (and I still lack a working camera), so I can't make any promises as to the regularity of updates or the timeliness of answered e-mails. I can promise, however, that I will try. At the very least I'll queue up some entries to post automatically.


Here's a pattern I made. My experience with making patterns is... well, you're looking at the sum total of it right now. Sized for widescreen desktops (full size 1280x800) for your downloading pleasure (for personal use only).

Click for larger image.

Behold the chaos!!

This is what my studio looks like right now:


I hope this gives you some idea of why I haven't been posting regularly. We'll be moving out of state in late October, and I have a lot of projects to finish and a lot of downsizing to do before then.

HOWEVER. In the interests of my sanity, I've decided to do the following:

• Dog profiles will happen on Fridays (if I have a new dog to post).
• Regular posts will happen at least once a week for now, to the extent that I can manage even that much. Please mind that much of my life currently resembles my studio. :)
• I've committed myself more firmly to posting more progress pictures of various projects. To that end, look for an image-heavy update on the Anubis mask later this week!
  

I'll get the hang of this blogging thing yet, I promise!

We are the music-makers

Someone (don't know who, but I've got my suspicions) (and no, it wasn't me) painted this onto the biking/walking trail that cuts through town and spans three counties. I use this trail every day, or nearly so, and this graffiti makes me smile each time:

(The quote, incidentally, is from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.)

Little dog, big world

From our front porch, early spring.
(I have a thing for empty-looking spaces.)

Springtime lake ice

There's something about fences that are absolutely ineffective when it comes to keeping people on one side or the other that just make me feel good about life. This one is too tall to jump over, but it's easy enough to walk around it and come face-to-face with Gitchi Gumee (aka Lake Superior).

I have no idea what that metal thing is, but isn't it awesome?

Evan using our new awesome mysterious metal friend to break up a bag of ice for our drinks. Note the last remnants of winter ice still hanging out on Lake Superior. We spent that afternoon drinking cold beer, looking at the water, and waxing poetic. It was pretty windy.