Seaweed!

The younger dancers in our recital last night performed The Little Mermaid. I found the seaweed adorable!!!
Might take a while till I have the guts to post my audacious, ancient old carcass...

Is My Face Red Or What?!

Turns out that the spiny dogfish does not have the longest gestation among vertebrates.
And after I went and made such a big deal about it to the high school students who are working on our underwater mural!
Apparently Lanza's Alpine Salamander beats the dogfish's 24 month gestation by a whole year...I just don't know how I'll be able to look into those innocent little faces again...

Inch By Inch

Roe by roe *cough *cough*

The roe will have to be one of the last items included in this mural. I was going to either paint it myself - herring roe on kelp - or force it upon some hapless student but Ville (exchange student from Finland) proposed it himself, though with his less than perfect English he described it as 'those balls on seaweed' . The only other selection for the mural that impressed me as much was from a grade 11 fellow who decided from the very beginning that he would be adding nudibranchs to the environment. He's on his second one which is the 'orange peel nudibranch' and it may prove a bit challenging as it doesn't have all the ethereal, floaty bits to distinguish it but I will guide him as best I can.

It's exciting to see things start to appear and the Haisla creatures work beautifully with the more graphic style backgroud and edge elements.

May Melt-down

I'd been thinking it's been a while since my last lament over TwinB's situation...
At present she's been out of work for one week, off the meds for three - and all the while with plumbing that's only been working intermittently since last Wednesday. So far she's been coping fairly well though I can't help but be a little on edge especially now that she's heading into the pms zone. (it's actually pmdd but most folks aren't so aware of the term) Can't help but recall a few previous Mays that were most unpleasant...
I hate cycles.

In Production

I am not only starting paintings but have also been completing paintings! This is the first version I've painted from the photos I took a few weeks back. The top part of the painting in shadow still needs work and I'll be painting a small rusty plaque in the space below that reads 'unrequited'. And then I'll be done!

Only 20 more to go...

It's A New Card!

My very first business card. Hurray for vistaprint - finally got me to tackle this little chore!

I know it's not the most amazing business card in the world but at least I have one now.

If I Were Editor-

- there would be a 20 year moratorium on titles composed of 'The ...insert title ...'s daughter'. You know, such as The Memory Keeper's Daughter, The General's Daughter, The Jew's Daughter...and on to infinity.

- I would not tolerate any more freakin British Columbia pioneer memoirs with titles that start with 'Never'. 'Never Chop Your Rope' ...'Never Poke a Porcupine In The Eye'...'Never Store Your Britches In The Crick'...okay I made up the last two but I swear every second stinking pioneer account published here seems to begin with 'Never'.

- and if in charge at a news agency where a reporter submitted an article referring to a small town as 'sleepy' they'd be fired on the spot.
Each time Global TV comes to town to cover our latest atrocity they always introduce Kitimat as 'sleepy' and somehow manage to find a citizen who - wide eyed - will go on about how nothing like this has ever happened here.

- did I mention that I'm pms-ing??