A Few Of My Favorite Trees

Cottonwoods in winter; good in any season though...

More River

More ice. We've had enough cold weather this year that the river has piled up some large chunks of ice.
I like ice.
And rocks.
who doesn't like rocks??

Down By The River

We went a-walkin' beside the Kitimat river and I took a whole crap-load of photos. Later on we went to Seamaster's restaurant in Kitamaat village where I saw a humpback whale for the very first time. While eating prawns!!!
Went home and watched the Academy Awards. Pretty good day all around.

If Sci-Fi Was Dance...

It would be in the form of Move-The Company.
I'm still all fired up from last night's performance. Wonderful choreography and dancing - especially by uber-young artistic director Josh Beamish (who is all of fah-reakin' 21!!!?)
Can't believe how inspiring it was...I got to tell him that although I love to attend dance events I'm always somewhat ambivalent...but for this one he made an old, failed dancer smile.

Took a walk in thought through my potential works for my exhibit this coming November...and yeah...I like it...think I got some decent stuff coming up.

Snapshots From My Day...

Started the day with an art class involving grade 3's and watercolour depicting outer space. We prepared the surface with a wash of dark colour leaving areas for planets and stars/suns. I noted someone's painting had the 'Lobster Nebula' which they found hillarious so I informed them that nebulas are normally named after an object they resemble...then encouraged each student to develop their own galaxy with any unique planets/suns/features. The results were most satisfying and will make a great display on the wall outside the classroom.
(the teacher showed me the folder where she's kept all the examples I've painted with her classes over the years so I scurried back to my piece - neglecting students for a couple of minutes - so I could improve on it for posterity)

Two or three venues later and into the evening while at Art Club I solved a persistent 'medical' situation - turns out a pain in my chest has been the result of a stray piece of metal from my cheapo underwire bra - coudn't shorten it so I'd put a loop on it and it's been pressing into my chest for days giving me owies...
*note to self - invest in new undergarments tomorrow.

The Other One...

...has been heading for the deep end while I wasn't looking. (twinA) She has a fellow to confide in though.
Powerful negative emotions have been building and unfortunately she discovered an ignition source...whisky
Sounds like it was spectacular.
Drywall repair will be involved.

Twisty Valentines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbG2MfElkVc&feature=related

This isn't in any way a representation of my present relationship - or anything I've experienced in my family of origin; however I was a great lil' victim to the community at large in former days and have been witness to situations that have resulted in...shall we say a great imbalance of power
I don't know how to embed links in that oh-so-cool-continue-the-sentence-in-another-colour way...even though twinB has given me directions, so there's a link to one of the sweetest, saddest, sickest songs ever written. The visuals in the video are harsh - it's probably best listened to without, but the sound quality is good. This artist isn't well known but has a following everywhere in the world. I got goosebumps watching live concert footage of this song in Greece showing older men and women of Athens heartily singing along.