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At this time of year the ground begins to change quietly. Moss softens after the frost, pale lichen brightens on old stone, and small mushrooms push their way up through the forest floor.
Small fragments of the Glen are gathered carefully (never too many from one place) and brought back to the worktable. There they are arranged and preserved inside small glass jars, like tiny field specimens of the woodland floor... knitted mushrooms nestled among moss and lichen, with tiny bead droplets that catch the light like morning dew.
A small study of the quiet life of the Glen... not quite finished... but almost ready for its place on the shelf
More specimens may be gathered as the seasons unfold...
School front and existing raised garden beds, before U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans arrive to volunteer in the District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Late afternoon September sun, streaming through a prism, sitting forgotten on a windowsill in the studio, transformed the rough leg of the worktable .
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans are volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside mural painting, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans are volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside mural painting, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Check-in table where U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans start the day volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
School front and existing raised garden beds, before U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans arrive to volunteer in the District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Cozy fire in the woodstove on this day of freezing rain. A little painting for a correspondence from a handful of campfire my daughter gifted me with last summer. This tinder rests on my worktable.
Principal Rembert Seaward and Washington Capitals' hockey mascot Slapshot compare arms-to-wings to see who has more muscles, when U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans volunteer in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More the 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
The paint crew: Ellen, Melissa, Karen, and Emily mix it up as they prepare to paint raised planter boxes when U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans volunteer in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans are volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside mural painting, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
The paint is eady for the raised planter boxes that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans will use as volunteer painters for the District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Utrecht University Library – Wiel Arets Architects
Size: 36.250 m2 - Design: 1997-2001 - Completion: 2004
The library, which houses 4.2 million books, was intended, in addition to being a place where people could work in a concentrated manner, to also become the intellectual social center for the suburban university campus, where students and others can come to study and meet at all times of the day. The 40 meter tall library and the adjacent, lower parking garage, both clad in glass and concrete imprinted with the same silk-screened figurative pattern, are sited on the major road and pedestrian pathway across the campus. The simple rectangular massing of the library and the repetitive rhythm of its concrete cladding and glazing, which is subtly modulated by the projecting operable sections, stands in stark contrast to the rich, plastic spatial complexity of the interior spaces.
The books are stored in two primary volumes that seem to float up towards the ceiling. The massive, lifted book stack volumes are made of black-painted cast concrete, and the walls have a three-dimensional figural pattern cast into them which matches the two-dimensional pattern imprinted on the exterior glazing. While the black pattern on the glazing filters the natural light entering the building, the pattern embossed in the black-colored concrete walls acts to diffuse and bounce the light deeper into the interior spaces. At the center of the building, a vertical space, running from the ground to the roof, is opened between the two book stack volumes, which are interconnected by a series of stairs and sloping ramps. This central vertical space forms the experiential hinge of the building, interweaving the lines of movement, the spatial layers, and the internal views.
The walls and ceilings of the interior are black and matt, while the floors are white and shiny. The bookshelves are black, while the worktables are white. The predominant black color characterizing the interior is critical to creating the atmosphere of concentration, security, and silent communication essential to the function of the library. The black interior creates a feeling of local enclosure, allowing the inhabitants to conduct the private activity of concentrated study in a public place of collective identity. The only exceptions to this color scheme are the red rubber surfaces used in the book checkout area, the information desks, the auditorium, the bar, and the lounge, all of which are related to the itinerary of public movement through the building.
The individual workspaces are organized in a wide variety of locations and arrangements within the interior, some quite intimate and isolated, and some quite extended and exposed. The individual user can make a choice of where to work, and thus to determine both their ability to be absorbed in their work, and the amount of communication they wish to have with others in the library. Because of the remarkably rich range of sizes and shapes of the workplaces, and the complexly layered sections and the endlessly unfolding spatial intersections within the building, it is possible to recognize and communicate visually with people across the interior, and even from floor to floor, while at the same time being undisturbed by those sitting nearby.
An unexpected Boeing C-40B VIP was out at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (Williams Gateway "Willie") on Saturday. He spent almost two hours in the pattern doing touch-and-go's. He spent so much time in the pattern that Joe and I were able to get right under him for a few of his approaches.
This one is dedicated to Joe because of his love for flashing aircraft beacons!
89th Airlift Wing
The 89th Airlift Wing (89 AW) of the United States Air Force is based at Andrews Air Force Base, MD. The 89th Airlift Wing provides global Special Air Mission (SAM) airlift, logistics, aerial port and communications for the President, Vice President, Combat Commanders, senior leaders and the global mobility system as tasked by the White House, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and Air Mobility Command.
C-40B
Mission
The C-40B provides safe, comfortable and reliable transportation for U.S. leaders to locations around the world. The C-40B's customers include members of the Cabinet and Congress. The aircraft also perform other operational support missions.
Features
The C-40B is based upon the commercial Boeing 737-700 Business Jet. The body of the C-40 is identical to that of the Boeing 737-700. Both models have state of the art avionics equipment, integrated Global Positioning System and Flight Management System/Electronic Flight Instrument System and a heads up display. Heading the safety equipment list is the Traffic Collision Avoidance System and enhanced weather radar. The aircraft is a variant of the Boeing next generation 737-700, and combines the 737-700 fuselage with the wings and landing gear from the larger and heavier 737-800. The basic aircraft has auxiliary fuel tanks, missionized interior with self-sustainment features and managed passenger communications.
The cabin area is equipped with a crew rest area, distinguished visitor compartment with sleep accommodations, two galleys and business class seating with worktables.
The C-40B is designed to be an "office in the sky" for senior military and government leaders. Communications are paramount aboard the C-40B which provides broadband data/video transmit and receive capability as well as clear and secure voice and data communication. It gives combatant commanders the ability to conduct business anywhere around the world using on-board Internet and local area network connections, improved telephones, satellites, television monitors, and facsimile and copy machines. The C-40B also has a computer-based passenger data system.
As They Are Right Now
Shoot your BJDs exactly as they are NOW - no posing, no photoshoping
My two newest BJDs Genna and Jude sit on my worktable and keep me company while I sew my bears.
Sometimes, there comes a moment, a split second in infinity, a thought so great and so all-encompassing that your world stops and stands still while that moment washes over you. I call that moment, "indescribable joy." I was fortunate enough to have such a moment today.
I was sitting at my kitchen worktable, an old science table covered in gray arborite rescued from some 50s classroom. I was writing a story for our local senior's paper. My eye was ever trained on a small window directly across from me. It is my bird window. It is kept fastidiously clean, and several feeders are usually kept full with a variety of foods to attract several types of birds.
Behind me lay my Canon 7D fitted with a 100-400 mm lens, shutter set to 1/640 and aperture set to its sweet spot of f/8.0 or thereabouts. ISO was on its own.
I heard a squawk, looked up, and there sat my jay. He didn't feed; instead he looked at me, watched me, and I watched him back. We studied each other and I advised him that I had to pick up my camera, and that he shouldn't be alarmed. I got it, rested it on the back of a high stool I have near me for just that purpose, and I took his picture. A second jay flew in behind him, and I got his picture, too. Then they grabbed peanuts and flew off.
I looked across the way to the deck railing; the sun had come out and was spotlighting a small sparrow, a busy little fellow, his mouth stuffed with nest-building twigs. I lifted my camera again and shot.
When I reviewed the images and marveled at the details I had captured, and then realized how lucky I was to have this opportunity, that's when I experienced my moment of indescribable joy.
In that moment, nothing mattered except my window on the world, my bird visitors, and my camera...there was no sadness, no sorrow, no stress, no worry about tomorrow. It was the sweet savoring of an instance in time, a moment of blissful reflection. A moment to thank God for His perfect wisdom.
Might I share this sweet shot with you, too? Just a tiny slice of life, a bird's eye view on the insignificant goings-on outside our windows.
I have learned so much from my bird friends, and from some of my birder friends. You know who you are. :)
Love and hugs to all my Flickr friends. May you be blessed with many moments of indescribable joy, too.
~~Sheree~~
boston, massachusetts
january 1971
metalsmith / jewelry maker
meeting house gallery, beacon hill
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans are volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside mural painting, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Outreach and Education Coordinator Annie Ceccarini (center) welcomes People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans to a day of volunteering on the Garden Planter / Toolshed Team, during District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
I don't really care what's on the outside of the cup. It's the blonde roast on the inside that makes me happy ☕
A lovely light feel in this clients kitchen. The bricks behind the Lacanche range cooker add a certain gravity to the design.
The lantern roof brings light and space into this space. The use of warm tones prevents the space from seeming too stark.
Chalon has been handcrafting their uniquely styled kitchens and furniture from the beautiful Hambridge Mill
I cleaned the worktable just for this shot. It just doesn't get any cleaner than this ever, and usually is in a terrible state of disarray.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans are volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside mural painting, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
An unexpected Boeing C-40B VIP was out at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (Williams Gateway "Willie") today. He spent almost two hours in the pattern doing touch-and-go's. He spent so much time in the pattern that Joe and I were able to get right under him for a few of his approaches. More to come!
89th Airlift Wing
The 89th Airlift Wing (89 AW) of the United States Air Force is based at Andrews Air Force Base, MD. The 89th Airlift Wing provides global Special Air Mission (SAM) airlift, logistics, aerial port and communications for the President, Vice President, Combat Commanders, senior leaders and the global mobility system as tasked by the White House, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and Air Mobility Command.
C-40B
Mission
The C-40B provides safe, comfortable and reliable transportation for U.S. leaders to locations around the world. The C-40B's customers include members of the Cabinet and Congress. The aircraft also perform other operational support missions.
Features
The C-40B is based upon the commercial Boeing 737-700 Business Jet. The body of the C-40 is identical to that of the Boeing 737-700. Both models have state of the art avionics equipment, integrated Global Positioning System and Flight Management System/Electronic Flight Instrument System and a heads up display. Heading the safety equipment list is the Traffic Collision Avoidance System and enhanced weather radar. The aircraft is a variant of the Boeing next generation 737-700, and combines the 737-700 fuselage with the wings and landing gear from the larger and heavier 737-800. The basic aircraft has auxiliary fuel tanks, missionized interior with self-sustainment features and managed passenger communications.
The cabin area is equipped with a crew rest area, distinguished visitor compartment with sleep accommodations, two galleys and business class seating with worktables.
The C-40B is designed to be an "office in the sky" for senior military and government leaders. Communications are paramount aboard the C-40B which provides broadband data/video transmit and receive capability as well as clear and secure voice and data communication. It gives combatant commanders the ability to conduct business anywhere around the world using on-board Internet and local area network connections, improved telephones, satellites, television monitors, and facsimile and copy machines. The C-40B also has a computer-based passenger data system.
I love my Morton glass cutter, but my son and his friend made me this strip cutter adapted from plans I bought from Artisan Glass in Austin. It is so fast! The cutter slides up and down on the bar on the left (set up for my left handed self).
This just might be the perfect summer toy for your adorable Blythes? Fancy a walk?
Your Blythe feels bored and needs a friend? This little piglet is fresh off our worktable and makes for a cute companion.
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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbit, Chapter I: AN UNEXPECTED PARTY
Welcome to the Shire. The starting and ending point of the famous books and films “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings”.
It is a perfect place to relax, read and fill your hobbit stomach with plenty of delicious food.
The Hobbit hole consists of 5 different rooms. A nice kitchen with a big table, a full storage chamber, a cosy living room with a fireplace and a worktable, an entrance room to welcome invited and uninvited guests and like all hobbit holes it has a round tunnel that connects the rooms.
I would suggest that it would include the minifigures: Frodo, Sam, Bilbo, the 13 dwarves and of course Gandalf.
Please support this creation and help it to become an official Lego Set.
Remember, it doesn’t cost you anything and you would do me a big favour.
After fussing around with a PVC pipe contraption on and off for most of the afternoon, I threw this little beauty together in about 10 minutes with a box cutter and some dish towels. Pipes will be more sturdy and can be cut for larger sizes, but this is a nice solution for small stuff, especially since I don't have the bedsheet or the extra lights I need to finish off the bigger one. This also needs at least one more light, but this is all I have at the moment and it's workable at low shutter speeds with a little post-processing.
To make it, I took an old box I had laying around that matched the size of my dish towels, cut off the lid entirely and cut rectangular holes in the remaining sides with a box cutter; I didn't even bother measuring or drawing it out first ('cause I'm a rebel like that). Note that the open top is now the floor. For added stability while cutting, I didn't punch out the cutouts until I had all of them done. When finished, I draped one towel through the top to form the backdrop and floor, and another over the top as a diffuser. Be warned: cutting all this cardboard, I scored the worktable I was working on a few times and made a heck of a mess of little cardboard bits.
Idea borrowed and adapted from this one.
Incidentally, this is also the first shot I've ever taken in RAW, and I was impressed with the difference in quality between it and JPG, though I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Troels toils on projects at this small worktable, tucked underneath a return loop in the staging area for his On30 Coast Line Railroad.
Troels is our guest on Episode 46.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans are volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside mural painting, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
The fourth book in my Foldable Dispatches 2021 project is finished and ready for you. This book contains drawings i made specifically for this book. You can see full size images at Selected Drawings, Foldable Dispatches Book Four
These drawings were started serendipitously.
I had been doing some color on a very large drawing and still had vinyl paint on a sponge brush that I use to draw on large areas. I didn’t want to waste the pigment so I put the brush aside and looked for some small sheets of watercolor paper. I found a small block of 10 sheets. i used the thinned paint to draw lines on all the sheets and left them to dry.
When I returned to the studio I was resolved to use only white ink to make my marks. i spent some time with the drawings hung in a group on a wall. I made myself an espresso and sat with my sketchbook. I looked at the gaps and thought about how they felt like terrain. The marks I make would map that terrain.
This idea would provide an excellent visual narrative for my next artist book/zine. I began to create a very small vocabulary of marks. I selected just a few and set up my worktable to begin making them.
This is an exclusive gift to my Patrons.