Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Awesome Blog Award


I received the Awesome Blog Award from two different blogging friends, Joan and Pam, on the same day. Thanks Joan and Pam. Now that's awesome! I won't pass on the award just now, perhaps at a later date. There are so many awesome blogs out there, it's a wonderful world of discovery. If you don't have a blog why not start one, it's fun. If you're reading here, why not make a comment, I'd love to hear from you.


I'm having a hard time thinking of seven things folks don't already know about me because recently I had to list seven things for a different blog award, but here's a few tidbits.

- I'm not a religious person but I am a spiritual person
- I am constantly curious and I like learning new things
- often when I hear a raven or crow, I crow back to them
- when I see a lizard I imitate the sound they make
- I brake for birds and animals in the air or in the road
- it pains me to see big old trees cut down in the name of so called progress
- today I saw a juvenile bald eagle fly across our back yard and while he was flying, I saw his head turning right and left and it amazed me
- yesterday was a special day to me, I saw the first butterfly this year, it was bright yellow, the brightest one I think I've ever seen. But the butterfly was flying much too quickly and erratically for me to get a photo. Later I saw a skink, yes a skink, not a skunk, slithering on the sidewalk and into the grass, but he slithered so quickly I was unable to capture his photo either. I thought about how the season is changing and all the creatures are awakening from their winter slumber. I felt a bit like them, the warmer weather, not too hot, not too cold, has given me renewed energy.

I mailed two packages to California yesterday and the shipping was much more than I expected. Perhaps my boxes were too big or I had too much packing material in them, then I insured them, which wasn't much. One was in a clay box which is a heavier cardboard. That one contained a sculpture and two goblets so I had to pack it well, the other was in a flatter box, not too heavy of a cardboard, still they were both about $22 each, plus insurance. Maybe shipping from Florida is more than other locations.

I'm using up the last of my clay and made the wall pocket above. I hope the bird doesn't fall off. In my painting class we learned the eye is drawn first to the colors of yellow, then red, then blue, the primary colors. I also think one color affects the look of another; I have a purple background behind the wall pocket and it makes the clay have a greenish tinge in the photo. I've been painting away; I've already learned I have so much to learn, more later.

8 comments:

  1. we have skinks here in NC too... i haven't seen one yet this year. the warm weather will probably have to get a little more consistent for them to wake up.
    as for shipping...seems like as soon as you cross the mississippi the rates really jump. did you use USPS or UPS? i have found USPS to be cheaper these days.

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  2. Hi Michele, thanks, I used the post office, but the boxes were heavy and pottery isn't light weight either. I think the trick is to get a box just big enough which is hard to do unless I make it up myself, which I've done for vases which are odd sized.

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  3. Congratulations.....I have enjoyed your blog. Thanks for sharing all your wonderful work.

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  4. Hi Gerry, thanks for your comment nice to hear from you, can't wait to stop by your blog too.

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  5. always good to read your blogs- thank you, thank you. Like it how you notice the ordinary...

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  6. Hi Amy, thanks, glas you are enjoying reading.

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  7. hi linda, i'm the same on #'s 2,3,5 and 6... wow, and i didn't include any of those when i listed my seven things

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  8. Hi Jim, thanks, I didn't know what to say this time, strange for me to be at a loss for words, Ha.

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