pepper mania

what happens when you print a few snaps on the same sheet of paper and don't get quite the effect you were going for ?

why you take out some majik markers and start drawing....:-) and then rescan the wild ass result...let the markers take control of your thoughts and hand

MOre artsy photos

but i do promise that the foolishness and mayhem of my cartoon world will be back shortly

Rainbells...

have camera, photoshop and imagination, and art will be made!!!!

What do you get when you sell your house....

and only have a boat to go back to live on ?????






but Judy prefers to say Vagabonds....or Boat People ?

Now that the home is about in the throws of being sold, with only their BlueWater boat in Kentucky Lake to live on, Joe and Judy are now free to follow their hearts and the warm weather for a while. Till they figure out what they will do when they grow up :-)

Weekend with good friends

when you are in the military, it's a big family. and just like families, there are some that you see, avoid or tolerate and hope you don't run into them too often. And some you always stay in contact with, over miles, time and professions - and are thankful that they are in your lives...perhaps not every day, but you know they would be there in a flash if you ever needed them. My pals Judy and Joe are those kind of folks. The military brought us together, but friendships keeps us together.

so it was great that we were able to get together and spend some quality time at the lake, relaxing, boating and just enjoying.



And of course their little girl, Brandy, brought her toys and bed. Just seems Thrash had to try it out....don't tell him he doesn't fit in it.



My new hat for boatin'! And by the looks of the doggie pix, you would think they had a lovers spat. But as always with Thrash, food WAS involved!

the serious and the silly

how's this for a mood swing in a few minutes ?

Artsy fartsy chairs...and eco friendly too

With the way the sun hits the deck at the lake house, and my plastic Adirondack chairs taking a beating, i was looking for something sturdier to replace them. I liked the new ones made from the recycled plastic milk crates, but they were a tad too expensive and could find the colors i wanted. Welll......i went to the unfinished furniture store by me at lunch time last week, to get some wooden ones, and i was surprised to find a new batch of the eco milk crate chairs, much cheaper than i had seen and in wonderful colors. so of course, i had to get them.

So here they are, waiting to be taken to the lake....


and then i got to messing with this pix in Photoshop...and got a little artsy fartsy. for a first time try, kinda happy with the result. boy are we getting creative and experimental!





My creative juices are just flowing !

A Dream of a small child

Back when i was growing up , it was the hey day of the space race. I sincerely wanted to be an astronaut, and collected everything I could get my hands on. I wrote to NASA, got little brochures and stuff, and treasured them. My parents took me on the pilgramage to Cape Kennedy [who knew that all those years later, I would be traveling down there for work - Melbourne FL where I go to Harris Corp, is only 20 min from the cape and on what is now called the Space Coast - Coco Beach and such.]

During the summer of my junior and senior year in high school, thanks to model rocketry clubs and the people I met through it as well as the National Science Foundation, I even got to work at Goddard Space Flgiht Center.





Mom saved and cherished all the trinkets, photos and 'what not' from those times, even after I switched gears and pursued different professional paths. And last trip home, along with the tutu i showed earlier on my blog, she bestowed some of the remenants of a childs dream from long ago.