Livejournal was hopping with good advice, which led to this: and that led to this: For this next one, a reprise of Bryony, I wanted to use the same font, but a rather bolder graphic approach. I have no idea if it works at all visually, but I gotta confess, the thumbnail reads better […]
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After all the great input (and I appreciate it!) on Livejournal, here’s round two of the first fake cover! I lightened the background and ran a light green gradient over it to make it contrast more starkly with the dark swatch, ran the author name to the edges to match the title, and increased the […]
I am not good at inspirational quotes.
A mystery for all my naturalist buddies out thereā¦ I spent the weekend in the swamps of Lousiana, specifically a mixed cypress & palmetto bayou. (Early May, in case this post sticks around for awhile.) We were birding in the middle of the day, and at one point, we stopped because some Gray Gnatcatchers were […]
BEHOLD THE HORRID GLORY OF CRAW-BOB THE LAWN CRAYFISH HE LIVES HE HUNGERS HE IS ABOUT THREE AND A HALF INCHES LONG THEY SAID I WAS MAD WHEN I SPOKE OF LAWN CRAYFISH BUT WHO IS LAUGHING NOW!? (ahem) Hound went out in a rainstorm and poked something, which poked her back, and this sequence […]
It is a faith of small, consistent miracles, damp soil, and hard work. Also worms. Worms are in there somehow. We haven’t worked all the details out yet.
So I was pulling weeds and flinging handfuls into the uncultivated chunk of garden under the trees, and I winged in a handful of chickweed and looked up just in time to see it land on top of this guy. (He is a Carolina Chickadee.) I ran in and immediately excavated him. He was fine, […]