December Sunrise

Sunrise this morning in my neighborhood.
Shot with instax Neo Classic (mini 9)

Post Thanksgiving Play

This year I was lucky enough to spend Thanksgiving weekend with my old friend & her family, including her 2 little kids. I don't know what to say, but I love her kids more every time I get to spend time with them! And since I don't have my own, I get to share photos of her cute kids :) These were random moments of play/outside time captured throughout the weekend....

not sure how many times my horse drawing skills were practiced!

I AM SO BORING!

the sharing incident...

I learned that there were sharks in here with the ducks!

Night Snow

I wish I had a really good reason for neglecting my blog the last few weeks besides life, travel and general life busyness, but that's all I have right now!

This year has been different and unpredictable for me. I've been trying to give myself more space and openness and it's taken me in surprising directions at times, but I'm going with it. If you had asked me 6 months ago if I would go to someplace cold and snowy voluntarily in winterish time, I would have though you were just trying to say ridiculous things (I feel weird when people call me Californian, but I have lived here longer than anyplace else at this point, I think... or close to as long as I lived in Texas)... but what do you know? I just spent this last weekend in Chicago where during the second night I was there, we were treated to snow. Luckily I feel like I was pretty well prepared and stayed warm for the most part. I didn't have obligations that made me traipse out into the snow, so for the most part it was a pretty novelty and I wandered until I had enough. I have seen snow before (in Southern California even... just go to the mountains!), but this is the longest I think I just stuck around and was by far the most urban setting I've seen it in. I can see how it would get irritating for extended periods, but for me, I had fun stomping through it and looking at everything in a different way and taking in the various stages of everything taking on a soft, uniform look, at least for a little while right after the snow fell.

Who knows if I will get to the rest of my photos from this Chicago trip as I have such a large backlog in general, but for now, just snow at night....

Christmas trees for sale, with real snow, not the sprayed on fake stuff!

makes me think of the playa at Burning Man...

it's kinda crazy how bright the sky was at night while snowing since everything was all white and reflective...

sounds of winter = scraping of snow shovels on the ground &
people cleaning the ice/snow off their cars.

November 16, Monthly Visitors

A continuation of last month's menstrual blood paintings,  this is the November 2016 edition of "Monthly Visitors"

I'm finding that the amount of "paint" each month is it's own limitation.... I'm balancing this with life, which is to say I have a full time job and other things going on, so I have to work within those limitations. Perhaps I'll try to work on one single piece vs. smaller pieces to see what I can do within those parameters one month...Since you're only working with a single color of non-ideal formulated paint substance, this definitely requires layers and patience to build up colors, but I'm enjoying the challenge.

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Touch the plants! Touch them all!

All shot during Holga Week 2016 with 35mm film Holga.

Chi Sunrise, 11/16

Chicago Sunrise, shot with Instax Neo Classic 11/14/16

LA Decom 2016 - Instants

Due to a variety of factors we haven't had a decom(pression) event post Burning Man for a few years.... this year though, it happened! Joy of joys!! Of course I pulled my normal trick of missing the application deadline by a day (last year I got it in on time & was accepted, but the permits didn't come so the event was cancelled a couple days before :/ ), so I didn't show anything, but I did make it out there. One of the things I've grown to appreciate about decom is that I feel comfortable taking different cameras along... This time, among others, my Instax Neo Classic went out with me....

love this one! I forget the name of the woman that brought this, but it was a large hanging piece of fabric that was woven by people at various events! There were balls of various yarns and ribbon stuff that you could then use to add to the project! This is a double exposure of one of the women that was working on it!

I haven't figured out the name of this piece, but it was at Burning Man this year!!!!

Serving people at the Tea Party!