Hollyspinner

smooth June 17, 2010

I resisted – I know someday he will be an angst ridden teenager with a cool as a cucumber girlfriend – and things on the interwebs live forever – so I resisted the urge to photograph the baby’s bottom.  Instead I tried to think of something else that is smooth.  For a while I was stumped, then I thought “well sometimes they say that whiskey is smooth”, but we don’t have any whiskey, we do have rum in the house so that is what I photographed.  (hmmm, it seems like alcohol is quite the theme for me this week)

Hush June 16, 2010

Have you ever had one of those days when it seems like everything around you is telling you the same thing?  Yes this is one of those days for me.  Both Meagan’s words of wisdom and the post over on Scoutie girl on creative legacy, while not speaking in one voice, harmonize and resonate with what I am feeling. So in short

• There is a reason for every experience – the good and the bad
• Where I have been informs where I am going
• It’s ok to be in this place at this time
• Look to the future, don’t live in the past
• Peace is possible

Today’s prompt was hush.  My brilliant idea was to take a photo of my beautiful baby napping, but as he is currently boycotting napping, except in the most un-picturesque places (i.e. the stroller, bike seat, and car seat) and at the most inconvient times (when I don’t have a camera available),  I convinced my beautiful daughter to pose for me.  It was a fun exercise for us both.

Some other ideas that I thought of for hush were an empty church, a forest glade or an empty classroom (that I always find have a preternatural silence to them), but again I went with what was available.

Full Bodied June 15, 2010

I cheated a little bit with this one.  I really wanted to take new pictures every day, but I really wanted to do something with a  full-bodied wine.  As I don’t can’t drink, and all of the wine bottles that come into my possession tend to be de-labeled and flatted as quickly as possible – I currently have no wine on hand.  Soooo, here a picture from a couple of weeks past.

Drizzle June 14, 2010

It has been a gray, humid, cloudy day here and I was hoping it would drizzle, but I don’t think it will now.  Thwarted by the weather I turned to other kinds of drizzle and it being snack time I thought of food.

By the way, my daughter and I split this waffle for a satisfying afternoon treat.

Maegan shared this really cool video, and I thought I would pass it along.  Great waffle eating music.

Fly Ornament June 13, 2010

It is day 7 and 8 of boot camp.  I am so very glad that Maegan chose to put the two days together, it gave me time to reconstitute after Friday’s craziness.

Today I went to The Village to take my photos – I had some ideas about ornament that were there. But first things first.

Yesterday’s prompt was “fly”.  I had so many ideas, swings, birds, bugs, and clouds – in the end some lessons were learned and the final product was something that I hadn’t even thought of.

Lesson learned:

• birds are fast
• so are bugs

Today’s prompt is ornament.  I have to admit this one gave me pause.  Of course my first thought was Christmas Ornament, but I really want to try to be inspired by the prompt and not be so literal.  After pondering I decided to find some personal ornament.  This is what I came up with:

Grow June 10, 2010

The random word prompt for toady is “grow”.  I went for the obvious plant route.

This plant is a favorite.  It is an Impatient, one of those throw away mother’s day flowers, sent home from preschool in an egg carton cup decorated with markers.  I kept it in a window and it never died, but instead it grew.  Repotted and repotted again, sometimes bits taken off and put in water to root like this one.

Heavy Metal June 9, 2010

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I am so excited about today’s assignment.  Go out, take pictures, study pictures.

I was surprised at the number of really good pictures.  Some themes showed up in the work

• Trees
• Graphics
• Patterns/Chaos
• Nature – keep in mind I live in the city
• Green

Our prompt for today was “heavy metal”.  This grate is all over our city (we live in a watershed) and every time I see it I think about water, where we get water, how we get water, what is actually in our water.  Definitely heavy thoughts from a simple metal storm drain.

Layered June 8, 2010

The theme for today is multilayered.  In response to the journal prompt I was thinking about my life.  How, especially in the last year or so there have been so many layers of emotions happiness, fear, joy, worry, elation, stress.  Now that we are entering a new wrinkle in Liam’s treatment (involving injections), he, and all he has been through has been weighing on my mind so when the topic was layered, I thought of all the great pictures of my son that I had and how they could be layered into a collage.  The result was more of a scrapbook kind of page but I really like it.  The whole Liam story can be found here.