Author: pixellogia

The trees are starting to bud and bloom and the apricot tree is completely white with blossoms.

Today was the final training run before the Salt Lake half marathon next week. So in 7 days my running will be complete until November, which is nice. Then it will be on to cycling to raise money for HCI cancer research.

So my little brother is in town which made me think of this. I had a box of nerds (the candy not the people) and so I just put a nerd alert on them.

It’s always good to have the family around though. I wish that Matt was still around too. It would be good if we could all get together again.

I decided to play with some clay again today. And this is what I came up with for the day. Besides having to put it in the freezer to make the clay stiff enough to work with, it was a pain to get it to balance long enough to take a picture.

On the plus side these bubbles won’t burst.

I’m not sure what to say today. Maybe I’m just glad it’s over. But here are some crayons so maybe it’s just time to color and relax before bed.

Today is April Fool’s Day. My mom used to love this day. She was a prankster at heart. Kind of makes me want to go eat some Oreos, filled with toothpaste. No wait, I don’t want to eat those. Good joke, mom. No wonder I have trust issues.

I wondered about this picture, whether it was breaking my rules. In the end I decided that it was possibly stretching them, but I’m going with it. These dolls weren’t something I had lying around, they were something I found among my mom’s old things. There was just this box of dolls from around the world and you can see Betsy Ross there in the back with the flag. Not all of them were in great shape as they have been boxed up for a lot of years.

During that time I’m pretty sure that there was a mole in the box and one of the dolls found out about it. I also suspect that it was the Russian in the back row and she decapitated the witness. That explains why the Russian doesn’t fit in with the rest of the dolls and the severed head in the front row.

It snowed today, which changed my plan for going outside to get a picture. I suppose I still could have but I worked on cleaning up my shop instead and then started to think about a picture for the day. I decided to make a butterfly out of white paper and then suspended it near a candle. This picture is only lit by the candle light so it had to have a longer exposure.

I decided I liked the black and white look for this picture better than the color one. So here is the picture for the day.

Had the exhaust finished on the T-bird today. It’s a project that I have been working on for a while now. Hopefully, my brother and I will get it running soon. It has been good to get together with my brother on a regular basis to work on a project. I just thought I would put a picture of another project in this project. It’s kind of like inception, except not with dreams.

I had no intention of another flower picture today. But somehow between yesterday and today the crocus in the picture emerged. I can always tell that spring has arrived when the crocus is in bloom. I always expect a blue crocus, but this year it seems that white is in. I guess it’s ok since its pre-labor day or something.

Yesterday, I heard some good news. I remember that pancreatic cancer was one of those diseases that is pretty much a guaranteed death sentence. Apparently, there is now a treatment that has shown some promise in treating it. Suck it cancer!