Under the Weather

I've been sick. I've gone no where but the backyard once, in a week.

It snowed that day though.

We suspect I have 'walking pneumonia'. My Doc is an Orthodox Jew, so he's MIA til Sunday. Wonderful! -_-

I'm going to resort to posting old pics soon.

La La La Musica

I wanted to badly soooooo play my digital piano today (apparently there's a big difference between a digi piano and a keyboard...who knew?)

I haven't played in weeeeeeeeks.

But during the holidays the power cord was misplaced, so I decided to take pictures instead.

I'm just learning the first 2.

But the last one has been my buddy forever =)

By the time the cord was found it was too late for my loud mouth singing on a weekday with neighbors so close by....oooh Ny sometimes you suck a bit.

Tomorrow though.

Loud as I want.

Cabin Fever

I gots it.

This weather. It's lucky it's so pretty or I'd hate it.

I've been trying to do some new-ish things and get back to some old-ish things I nearly forgot I enjoyed doing.

I burned some wood. A new-ish activity. I had tried last year but gave up quickly...it isn't nearly as easy as I thought it would be. You can sketch out what you want to burn to your heart's content but the wood grain dictates what you're *actually* going to do. *frustrating*

Then 'inspired' by these sheets of paper from an antique, French novel I have I decided to do some 'mixed media' work (the old-ish activity). Took a sentence from a page and off I went.

"The fleshy girls who treated life like a dance."

or something like that.

Hand colored a print I made of an antique ballerina photo.

The result:

Then I remembered why I stopped doing this. I suck at it. =)
My paper is forever wrinkly and I value simplicity in an art form that is all about abundance.

...I should stick to photography I think =)

Tiny Things

Thank God for macro. The weather here has been cold and junky and after being stuck upstate,inside for weeks, I came back to the city only to get stuck inside again.

Ho Hum.

It is challenging to find interesting things to photograph in only 650 sq ft, besides the cats.

I just heard on the news we're going to have a "deep freeze".

I don't know what that is, but it doesn't sound conducive to going anywhere!
I'm attempting for the 3rd time, an "Alphabet Soup"(photos from A-Z) in my apartment. Maybe I'll finally get it done this time. =)