Category: pictures

Of Potters and Pots

This morning we woke up and wanted to do/make something. LaGrande reminded us of her birthday present last year – a pottery wheel (such as it is).

So she put in the batteries (yes [sigh] it runs on batteries) kneaded the clay and she/we “threw” a few pot-shaped items.

We all got very dirty and scratched a little bit of that “make stuff”-itch.
Later we all painted fish – for a certain, imminent birthday party. (no pics)

The Potter - not Harry.

The Potts - not Mrs.

Because its there

I’m sure there’s any number of reasons, psychologically speaking, for breaking from the norm:

– mid-life *sis
– personal bets
– learning opportunities
– mimicry
– comfort
– discomfort
– celebration

Whatever the cause (I can’t claim to know or even be objective enough to dive in and find out) this is the result.

hair is fair

I guess I could always just say

The Mermaids did it.

Performing Group

It’s no secret that LaGrande Mermaid spends a lot of time at the dance studio.
What seems to be less evident, at least by a count of dance related bliefs, is how much she likes it.

This last weekend her group, named Animato, competed again; the season runs Jan through Feb/Mar and next weekend *might* be her last Animato performance of the 2011 season.
This weekend they performed two numbers a jazz number called “Proud Mary” in the blue costumes and a musical theater number called “Positoovity” in the white costumes. They did exceptionally well this time.

Positoovity got best overall (out of three numbers), the highest allowable ranking, and a special judges award while Proud Mary received the second highest ranking (both in the same age category) and another special judges award.

Without further ado,

Proud Mary

Proud Mary

Positoovity

Positoovity

There’s many a slip…

Today the choice was teacup – and looking back it was nice for a change not to worry about the proportions of an organic subject.
I have practice with inanimate, or man-made, shapes.

Here we see LaGrande holding the handle on her left and Biscotti on her right.
TheWeeOne is preparing to take a bite out of a very large marshmallow from our huge cup of snocoa.

...'twixt the cup and the lip.

Fast snowfall 2011

This snow was widely predicted (my new favorite weather predictor is Cliff Mass, the Atmospheric Weather Sciences Prof. at the UW – clearly he knows his stuff).
But even as widely predicted as it was it still accumulated faster than I thought possible.
In a few short hours it went from dry as a bone to about 4 inches, that’s fast.

Enjoy it while it lasts (or if you prefer a warmer clime…rest assured it won’t last long).

These are ~13 to 15 second time exposures taken between about 22:00 and 02:00.
(I worked tonight and will continue early tomorrow ’cause I FULLY expect to stay home and and play in the snow with The Mermaids)

What a tangle!

More tangle!

That's at least 4 inches! - in about 4 hours