Note to self: Doing manual labor out in the yard all day involves being in the sun. Ah. Yes. I had forgotten that. It’s been so long since I did yardwork. And believe me, when one is the pale and consumptive* artist type, the sun is a baleful death star. My shoulders and back have […]
Monthly Archives: April 2006
The donkey’s name was Quick. His front hooves were neat and dexterous and opposable, and his back hooves were the size of dinner plates and had unassuming steel shoes. He had a pale grey hide and pale pink nostrils, and ears like enormous fringed fans, and if you lifted up his cowl far enough, you […]
So I went to the doctor, who was understandably fairly concerned about my heart palpitations–too many, too often, for too long a time–and she arranged me to see a cardiologist next week. Since it’s hard to catch a palpitation in the office, I’ll probably have to get electrode hooked to my chest, and wear a […]
Today, we hemorrhaged money. The lawn is an atrocious sight. The front “bed” not much better. A circular bark-filled bed, containing the most brutalized Japanese maple I’ve ever seen…terrible. So we set out to correct these things. We bought a lawnmower. That was expensive. We went to a nursery. That cost more than the lawnmower, […]
The peculiar blue berried plant is indeed a leatherleaf mahonia! Woo! And the peculiar phloxlike flowers today revealed a number of round, flat seedpods–it’s honesty, or money plant, growing wild. While a non-native, and thus not a “WOO!” it’s at least a “Hmm, neat, okay,” since butterflies and birds like it. It’s also, I must […]
Another texture-scribbly experiment of a painting. I haven’t gotten it quite yet, I am forced to admit, but I feel like I’m close to cracking the…whatever I need to crack. This is one of those that’s better in person, though–when it’s built up of scribbly lines, the details lost by going to 72 dpi are […]
Once again, for the duration of the Eisner voting, the Digger archives are FREE! FREE! FREE! Go, read ’em now, quick! http://www.graphicsmash.com/series.php?view=first&name=digger
This one’s actually a mystery shrub. It has holly-like leaves, with the stickery bits, and it has pale blue berries. I don’t think it’s Oregon Grape, however–the berries are not round, but teardrop shaped, and clustered tightly together in large bunches, which appear to be growing in the crooks of the branches. Anybody got any […]
I have just made an unsettling discovery. I am 370 miles from Point Pleasant, West Virginia. “But Ursula,” the reader may say, “why on earth do you care? Your entire opinion of West Virginia is that it’s an unneccessary two hours between you and your parents. They have great natural beauty and instead they advertise […]
In case anybody’s following the Ursa Major awards (a set of furry fandom awards) the nominations are out, and Digger’s been nominated under “other literary work.” The guys at Sofawolf have a number of pieces in the running, and their post already includes a lot about how to vote and whatnot, so I’ll just link […]