Yesterday I took a workshop in beginning direct fish printing with Don Jenson, who prints fish out in Oregon. This was direct printing, where you put the ink right on the fish, then put the paper on top of it and rub the back of the paper. There was a limited selection of subjects at …
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Coacloud
I’m writing from the Coacloud wireless network. I’m not used to taking a laptop away from home and using it on whatever network I find. We’re attending the Nature Printing Society workshop at College of the Atlantic (that’s the Coa in Coacloud) in Bar Harbor, Maine. At the social hour after supper (a good salad …
Ouch ouch ouch ouch
That’s me running from a bunch of angry yellow jackets. That hadn’t happened to me in fifty years. When I was a kid my family spent our summer vacations on Lyme Rock Farm in Benson, Vermont. We spent a lot of our time fishing, swimming in Sunset Lake, and walking around the pasture. One day …
More on Aug 11 weekend
Charley, Nicole, and Emma were in Casco this weekend. Nicole had emailed beforehand to ask what berries were ready for Emma to pick. There are a few remaining raspberries, but by now mostly it’s blackberries. Arlene, Nicole, Emma, and I all went out picking. There were more blackberries than I expected. The bush I had …
Bri-Mar trail
Sometimes we think the principal industry in Maine is publishing giveaway newspapers filled with ads for local businesses, human interest stories, and columns about local gardening, hunting, fishing, and hiking. I envision people who worked for the Boston Globe and the New York Times retiring to Maine, saying, “I always really wanted to run my …
Startled
I was scouting around the woods behind our house to see where there were blackberries worth taking Emma out to pick when I heard a noise of something big crashing through the trees and bushes nearby. It seemed to be getting farther away. I didn’t see anything. I guess I startled a deer that saw …
Visit from Marina
A couple of weeks ago Millie phoned to talk Arlene into having a house guest for a few days. Many years ago Joel had gone to Russia on a teacher exchange program. A woman he had met on that program, who teaches English language and English and American history and literature in the city of …
In Maine with Judy
Arlene’s college and grad school roommate Judy finally had a weekend free to come up to our place in Maine. I neglected to get any pictures of Judy herself. We hung around our place most of Saturday, going down to the association beach for a while around noon and taking our canoe out for a …
Bank show gone
A group of artists that Arlene hangs out with was invited to exhibit their work in the Citizens Bank in Newtonville. Arlene had something like eight or a dozen pieces up there for July, plus or minus. I went with her on July 31 to take her show down. It looked very professional and totally …
July 21 weekend
On July 21 we went to the “Art in the Park” art and crafts sale in Bridgton. Aside from a T-shirt (the one from that event last year, not exciting but a good light-colored T-shirt (light-colored makes it easy to find ticks on it, so it’s good for out in the woods) we got, well, …