tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185054732024-03-23T13:17:45.697-05:00Nan's BlogSome things design, cycling, and other related.Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.comBlogger488125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-91010003401184809952019-03-13T13:11:00.000-05:002019-03-13T13:11:00.909-05:00The Great MigrationSounds like there should be a pretty bird or butterfly picture here, but it's just my blog that is migrating. Please visit www.NancyMellem.com and you'll be on my WordPress site.<br />
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Thanks for visiting.Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-10224267858011670112019-02-22T12:57:00.000-06:002019-02-22T12:57:36.743-06:00Creative Mornings at the Milwaukee Art MuseumThe <a href="https://creativemornings.com/" target="_blank">Creative Mornings</a> theme today was "Symmetry," and what better place to have this conversation than the Calatrava?<br />
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The Creative Morning program started at 8:30 this morning...long before the MAM was due to open and spread its wings for the day. Coming out the top story of the parking garage from the museum on Lincoln Memorial Drive, I was able to cross over what I consider to be part of the "spine" of the structure.</div>
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The event started with coffee and muffins with a view. Tables were set around to rest a cuppa while you introduced yourself to other creatives. I enjoyed conversations with Nancy, Sandy and Toni...close friends attending together. Sandy is a seasoned Creative Mornings attendee, and Nancy and Toni were enjoying their first venture into the event.</div>
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Before the presentation, our host for the event, Paul Oemig (above), asked us to engage with a stranger in our vicinity for one minute to explore our "____" = "_____" name tag topics. I had a nice conversation with Nick who is an experiential designer focussed on cutting out the social media clutter in pursuit of deeper interactions. Creative Mornings was just the spot for Nick. He talked about his desire to find locations for events where people can have shared experiences. I told him about Kenosha's Creative Space, and he already knew Francisco Loyola. It's a small wonderful world.<br />
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Whitney's presentation was a treat. Her career has not yet spanned a decade, but she discovered early on the jangly dissatisfaction of a work/life imbalance. She talked about the process of determining her goals and rebuilding her career to attain that balance (symmetry) for herself.<br />
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She's put together a freelance illustration and design business that allows her to take the time to do work that is more pleasing to her and to her clients. Time, play, and the power of saying no were all necessary in remaking her career.<br />
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I wish I'd had such a clear vision of my own career from such an early part of it.<br />
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As a wonderful surprise, the MAM invited all attendees of this Creative Mornings event to view the <a href="https://mam.org/exhibitions/details/bouguereau-and-america.php" target="_blank">Bouguereau & America</a> exhibit. As it happens, I had the time, and the exhibit was terrific.</div>
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Thanks for stopping by!Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-54907519498516851872017-08-28T16:12:00.000-05:002017-08-28T16:12:01.893-05:00The Alaska Journal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Why so many pictures of the mountains, Nan?"<br />
"Because while I was snapping photos, I also had time to catch my breath, and let my legs stop wobbling."</td></tr>
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<br />Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-35080129311060608782017-03-26T11:37:00.001-05:002017-03-26T11:37:37.657-05:00Maryland for Grammy's Memorial<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Travel isn't always about the food, but when you're sitting still to eat, it's a handy time to sketch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's not often that our family gathers in numbers, so it was a charmed breakfast that brought a steady stream of family through the door for breakfast. Makes me wish we all lived in one town and could recreate the experience on a daily basis. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The coat draped over the chair was the only part of this sketch I liked. The guy looked like a Peanuts character and the Southwest marker post was waaaaaaay out of proportion. The page just needed a whale with a ridiculously pointy nose, and then a tree to balance the spread—perfection.</td></tr>
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In between the drawings we ate many more meals, shared many memories of wonderful times, visited with more family, and memorialized a wonderful woman who will be missed by many.<br />
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Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-61947819913263357972017-02-03T17:25:00.000-06:002017-02-03T17:25:01.823-06:00Smidgen<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The quotes on the small pages are from an edition of "Life's Little Instruction Book" from a father to a son. This one, "Find some other way of proving your manhood than by shooting harmless animals and birds." <br />
As my Dad would say, "Of course, if they are NOT harmless, aim for the vital organs."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Probably a smidgen of authenticity can still be provocative and elegant." <br />
"Smidgen"...great word....</td></tr>
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Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-19711630253172524422017-01-17T17:40:00.000-06:002017-01-17T17:40:13.700-06:00The wonderful thing about ruining something...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...is it can't get any worse. Unless you're talking about the presidency of the United States of America.<br />
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Dear Mr. Trump,<br />
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When you take the oath of office on Friday, kindly clean up your act and show respect for the office you're temporarily assuming, and for the American people you are now serving. Yes sir, you are expected to be serving the people of the United States of America. Please note this does include, but must not be limited to, the Trump family.<br />
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Be more deliberate...please stop and think about the causal relationships between your flamboyancy and the potential damage. Don't ruin, with your flippancy, what so many men and women have built. That behavior is disrespectful and unworthy of the presidency, and it will temporarily undermine America's greatness.<br />
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<b>Yes, America is already great.</b> She has been great all along. She is great because of her ideals—not because of the actions of one man (Republican or Democrat). She staggers sometimes because greatness is a pursuit for every day of her (and our) existence.<br />
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Please keep this in mind—America is great, and you are now a custodian of her. Be a bigger man than you have ever been—not through bombast and threat, but through whatever wisdom you can bring to bear on her behalf. If you don't personally have the wisdom, it is not a weakness to find it in others.<br />
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I voted for Hillary Clinton, and everything I am asking of you in this letter, I would ask of her. I take comfort in knowing that even if you prove to be one of our worst presidents, America will still be great. You will be a footnote in her history. The people of the United States of America will continue to uphold her ideals during your tenure and long after it. It would be better if you were a good president, however—better for America and her citizens.<br />
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America is already great. Can you step up to America's idea of what a president should be? Can you do it? Can you at least strive to do it? Despite what I have seen so far, I hope so.<br />
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Thank you,<br />
Nan<br />
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A look at the tools I used for the Italy Travel Journal. I pilfered the sock-wrist-towel from Pinterest—worked like a dream and I continue to use it. Derwent watercolor pencils, Pentel Water Brush, and a ballpoint pen (substitute pen pictured—original is now charging an appearance fee, and requires a signed contract up front).<div>
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Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-37480669528351617362016-12-21T16:41:00.000-06:002016-12-21T16:41:03.176-06:00Italy Journal Sketches<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First sketch of the Italy travel journal.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's my real luggage—to scale! Ha, ok so maybe not, but it kinda<br />
felt like it until I had to carry it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fig page edge...the fruit is hard to come by around here,<br />
but they littered the ground outside our door at the villa.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the guest buildings at Cinelli-Colombini.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Notes from our tour guide's presentation at Avignonesi. She explained<br />in great detail two experiments in planting that were completed at<br />their winery. No two vineyards were the same on the trip—they<br />all had their own practices and traditions.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What happens when you try very hard to draw a straight line while riding<br />on a bus? Wonkiness! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It tickled me that my morning cappuccino was served to me every morning in a cup with<br />
Big Ben and the Parliament building on it—loved it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our final night at Cinelli-Colombini we had dinner<br />
"on our own" at the Osteria di Donnatella (the restaurant<br />
on the property of the villa). Bob very generously decanted<br />
a 2000 Donatella Reserve for each table as a treat. Wow!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The villa sent us off with a bag lunch for our 5-hour bus ride to the Adige<br />
region in the north of Italy. There was a yummy dessert bar in there, too, but<br />
I required sustenance for the drawing...ha!</td></tr>
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Our first night in the Adige region we ate at the Gasthaus Zum Schenk...<br />
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<br />Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-64037926052020558792016-03-17T14:44:00.000-05:002016-03-17T14:44:09.857-05:00Love this!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/157743578" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe>
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I also have a 3-season room on the front of my house, and it looks so much better filled with leafy greens. I have to watch myself, however, because all those leafy greens have to come inside in that pesky 4th season that lasts soooooo long.<br />
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Problem: Where can I keep these plants? Where will they get the same bright light they prefer?<br />
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I know **lightbulb-over-head moment**! I'll use some of those boards from the old bookshelves in the basement to make a plant platform!<br />
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Some time with my table saw, jig saw, sander, drill, clamps and foam brush and ta da! Well, maybe not entirely a ta da because, as you can see, I forgot one key step before I made my mitered cuts—I didn't rip the boards to get rid of the old outlet openings...oopsie! Lucky for me, I'm not a perfectionist and I choose to think those "add character."<br />
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Thanks for stopping by!Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-18630366228349585242014-11-12T19:24:00.001-06:002014-11-12T20:17:43.926-06:00Moleskine Exchange StartedI've started a Sketch exchange with Dad. My drawing of a dragonfly started us off. It stopped by a few summers ago, and very kindly hung out on a piece of bamboo that was propping up my summer tomatoes. It allowed me to take several photos...I'd had enough of shooting photos before it ever decided to fly away.<div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdUejuX-At86K6j8bUmTLq7sJwvTLlnM0S4jiGv_PjgV9lX5nikcOxBzMcQgUj_MH6HeOR4QA43b8jDAucUH-JQ2jMIXAp6oYw7eYMwY1bn63LZamAMBGF55nHDu_G4wCOUvn9/s640/blogger-image--755947279.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdUejuX-At86K6j8bUmTLq7sJwvTLlnM0S4jiGv_PjgV9lX5nikcOxBzMcQgUj_MH6HeOR4QA43b8jDAucUH-JQ2jMIXAp6oYw7eYMwY1bn63LZamAMBGF55nHDu_G4wCOUvn9/s640/blogger-image--755947279.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Thanks for stopping by!</div><br></div>Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-14174793438168194512014-10-08T08:39:00.000-05:002014-10-08T08:39:07.360-05:00Lunar Eclipse <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://kck.st/1pNTTIk" target="_blank">SEA CHAIR: Into the Gyre</a>Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-21430406814775897212014-05-15T23:18:00.001-05:002014-05-15T23:18:16.328-05:00Now HereStriving, struggling, hoping and planning<div>One foot in front of the other</div><div>Collecting, arranging, scheduling and organizing.</div><div><br></div><div>Striving to be the hyperbolic human.</div><div><br></div><div>Supermom, specialist, expert and fluent</div><div>One foot in front of the other</div><div>Rising above, forgiving, bridging the clichéd gap.</div><div><br></div><div>Still striving to be the hyperbolic human.</div><div><br></div><div>Standing anywhere at any time the breeze blows a whisp of hair in my face, across the bridge of my nose.</div><div>Irritation.</div><div>Leave the hand at your side, and turn your face to the wind, girl.</div><div>The lock shifts away.</div><div>Inhale and smell...damp earth or hot asphalt or honeysuckle or...</div><div>Exhale.</div><div>Inhale. Drop your shoulders. Let ease consume you.</div><div><br></div><div>Shoulders fall, jaw slackens, eyes close. Exhale.</div><div>Inhale...the <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">world's immaculate odor. Fragrant or foul...Earth.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Exhale the body into the Earth...exhale Being.</div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Release hyperbolic human and be:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">At the end of the simple exhalation, cough...gently, and cough repeatedly and softly until all air deserts you. Chuff your wind into the world.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Collapse your Self.</span></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">Physiologically and deeply inhale and exhale...now you are primal.</font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">Now you breathe to exist, sweet simple existence.</font></div><div>Simply existing is Being. Permission and affirmation not required.</div><div>I am. I exist. Enough.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-89508767350290604822014-05-13T16:44:00.001-05:002014-05-13T16:50:34.973-05:00Yellow Iris<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAiiKFRPC_H96LPw0O__ExvPd70vlVSj8KDbnfpmu5vAOT1Eu4RcCbxrctdcpVIAO-uiN-J6udFs2xKiayIx-ffTWxUNcGjcrfD5Kn6bE32BmDxeAxqOViw7-EEo_qed7m4Vjf/s640/blogger-image--2119346631.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAiiKFRPC_H96LPw0O__ExvPd70vlVSj8KDbnfpmu5vAOT1Eu4RcCbxrctdcpVIAO-uiN-J6udFs2xKiayIx-ffTWxUNcGjcrfD5Kn6bE32BmDxeAxqOViw7-EEo_qed7m4Vjf/s640/blogger-image--2119346631.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This Saturday the Harbor Market in Kenosha will be heading outside for the summer...a true sign of spring!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Four Seasons Garden Club will be having our plant sale at the market. I've been illustrating some of the species I'll be contributing to the sale. This drawing was done from a photo I took a couple of years ago. This year I drained my pond, and whacked about 6 cuttings from the plant. The cuttings are in buckets anxiously anticipating their forever homes. :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The illustrations will be going on plant description sheets with growing instructions and some other pictures I've taken of the plants, either recently or over the years.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If you happen to be in Kenosha, WI this weekend, please stop by our booth and pick up some plants! The proceeds of the plant sale will support garden club projects including, but not limited to, the maintenance of the Margaret Myers Memorial Garden on the Kemper Center property.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Thanks for stopping by!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBrT6CBuDtbMY9vN01qwIHH2Q34Ti7uMTjPM7nPAKCu8IrLM_SxHMhNRQBazKE4gkadWHx-5c_FcO8czMl-LzkS30Hp5ahLprb4wP6eQf9xTznuVt2ghlKkft9TMkRnEQ5x_lK/s640/blogger-image-987198670.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBrT6CBuDtbMY9vN01qwIHH2Q34Ti7uMTjPM7nPAKCu8IrLM_SxHMhNRQBazKE4gkadWHx-5c_FcO8czMl-LzkS30Hp5ahLprb4wP6eQf9xTznuVt2ghlKkft9TMkRnEQ5x_lK/s640/blogger-image-987198670.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-62945385559592728512014-05-04T12:15:00.001-05:002014-05-04T12:15:56.827-05:00Nature Red in Beak and Claw<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>A slight variation on the true quote, but more accurate to the scene in my back yard this morning. A Swainson's Hawk stopped by for a meal!<div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6EYrDnEZlEDbW8rSFjWJk-KSz0-i6ZPEqInGjhxz_c6eW75BjoEwwAz_oqDXv2oa534uYoo9LNGb3vSvdFg8PaNks3BIujyyYby24_oPIjsHeuixOCmEscQHlxdhDNotxWVn6/s640/blogger-image-1866841591.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6EYrDnEZlEDbW8rSFjWJk-KSz0-i6ZPEqInGjhxz_c6eW75BjoEwwAz_oqDXv2oa534uYoo9LNGb3vSvdFg8PaNks3BIujyyYby24_oPIjsHeuixOCmEscQHlxdhDNotxWVn6/s640/blogger-image-1866841591.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEl26GjdU9oZba42vcUCr8r0NxMeVVQJSUs0dbSchWac9OqHq9tf_IPGkwI5yD35Ba7rme9-1WxFqjekWBRP79l78-O7jxkKtUjyGb0gQ6UeuCxPaEmPpCUGRAL7la03f7Eis/s640/blogger-image-1279886850.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEl26GjdU9oZba42vcUCr8r0NxMeVVQJSUs0dbSchWac9OqHq9tf_IPGkwI5yD35Ba7rme9-1WxFqjekWBRP79l78-O7jxkKtUjyGb0gQ6UeuCxPaEmPpCUGRAL7la03f7Eis/s640/blogger-image-1279886850.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Close-up from the photo above.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHDOGNdqf65jifubRisSxGdf4VdbaLDeRSrA-j_kSd1MCj7IJ5KKAK6zgwudwSdZNIaJbqkuo-odUVuSihZrVVuWod6wLkkQ3nZZSNFDBwyzeDhHNp4GJvasIxgAlSGCikoVRa/s640/blogger-image-996970441.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHDOGNdqf65jifubRisSxGdf4VdbaLDeRSrA-j_kSd1MCj7IJ5KKAK6zgwudwSdZNIaJbqkuo-odUVuSihZrVVuWod6wLkkQ3nZZSNFDBwyzeDhHNp4GJvasIxgAlSGCikoVRa/s640/blogger-image-996970441.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">From the remaining feathers, I think lunch might have been a morning dove, but I'm not sure.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Thanks for stopping by!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></div><br></div>Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-48503787564780488032014-05-01T18:53:00.002-05:002014-05-01T19:00:41.300-05:00New Rain Garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjko54r3ZBxveaZYcntBM5DI5jTXhW6YfkM7MFL4sDomd7B_xUEpOX7UzQMYrlTTcgjUBWXgR5XT1L6rgXRHGdddD0MKFFMJyHrrdM88kj8BgBMQi9xXI9u-MjS-cIOC3kdtnKd/s640/blogger-image--562540475.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjko54r3ZBxveaZYcntBM5DI5jTXhW6YfkM7MFL4sDomd7B_xUEpOX7UzQMYrlTTcgjUBWXgR5XT1L6rgXRHGdddD0MKFFMJyHrrdM88kj8BgBMQi9xXI9u-MjS-cIOC3kdtnKd/s640/blogger-image--562540475.jpg"></a></div><br>
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Easter weekend I made this water damming herb garden into a rain garden. Now instead of a pool of water that flows around the house and out to the sewer, I have a garden that claims the water and filters it into the water table. It's still a bit lumpy, so I'll have to do a bit more careful grading to optimize its performance, but there's measurable progress.<br>
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Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for your patience.Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-36512356388054581692013-12-12T10:00:00.001-06:002013-12-12T10:10:41.551-06:002014 Design TrendsAccording to iStock in an infographic:<br />
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IMHO, #11 has been a little over done at this point, plus it always makes me hungry.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by!Nanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16442518566058265692noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505473.post-69955844440728747972013-10-12T11:44:00.001-05:002014-03-04T14:34:41.963-06:00Must be exasperating to be shorn over and over<div style="font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0;">
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Would it be irony or justice if just once someone knitted a sweater for a sheep?</div>
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