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Drawing a fish, drawing a fish...
It's 10 p.m. and I'm working on a logo for tomorrow. Am I getting paid for working tonight, you ask? Ah, that is the dubious joy of being on salary. Just sittin' here, drawing a salmon.
... well, obviously not drawing a salmon at this exact moment. Just now, I'm avoiding drawing a salmon. Why is it impossible to find photo refs of the underside of a salmon's head? I'd better get it right, because it's going to be plastered all over town in a few weeks and this town is FULL of people who fish. If I draw the salmon with a misshapen jaw, you can better believe I'll hear about it.
I promised more Alaska pictures and have not delivered yet. I did take a few, but they're still on my camera. The area that will be my garden is melting nicely; you can even see bare ground in a couple of places. I scattered ash from the boiler on the snow to hurry up the melting process.
Still have no running water, but we actually are able to haul enough water each day to meet our day's needs. I take showers at work and we make every flush of the toilet count (don't ask for details ... trust me).
We have now reached that weird time of year, at 64 degrees of latitude, when the light lasts so long in the evening that you feel it MUST be summer already, and then you look outside and the ground is still covered with snow. Tonight I walked the dogs at about 9:30 (to avoid drawing salmon) and it was still light enough to see, although getting a bit twilight-ish. I woke up last night at 3 a.m. and noticed that there was still a faint streak of light in the sky. It will be too bright at night to see the stars in another few weeks. By the summer solstice, the sun will set for only about an hour and a half, and you can read a book outside at midnight. Then the days get shorter and we do this all over again.
... well, obviously not drawing a salmon at this exact moment. Just now, I'm avoiding drawing a salmon. Why is it impossible to find photo refs of the underside of a salmon's head? I'd better get it right, because it's going to be plastered all over town in a few weeks and this town is FULL of people who fish. If I draw the salmon with a misshapen jaw, you can better believe I'll hear about it.
I promised more Alaska pictures and have not delivered yet. I did take a few, but they're still on my camera. The area that will be my garden is melting nicely; you can even see bare ground in a couple of places. I scattered ash from the boiler on the snow to hurry up the melting process.
Still have no running water, but we actually are able to haul enough water each day to meet our day's needs. I take showers at work and we make every flush of the toilet count (don't ask for details ... trust me).
We have now reached that weird time of year, at 64 degrees of latitude, when the light lasts so long in the evening that you feel it MUST be summer already, and then you look outside and the ground is still covered with snow. Tonight I walked the dogs at about 9:30 (to avoid drawing salmon) and it was still light enough to see, although getting a bit twilight-ish. I woke up last night at 3 a.m. and noticed that there was still a faint streak of light in the sky. It will be too bright at night to see the stars in another few weeks. By the summer solstice, the sun will set for only about an hour and a half, and you can read a book outside at midnight. Then the days get shorter and we do this all over again.
Re: Aarrgghhh
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I still love my 35mm camera, which was given to me for my birthday in 1988, even though the mock-leather backing has mostly fallen off and the lens is dented around the edges from falling off a snowmachine when I was about 16. But I finally broke down and got a digital one last year ... and I'm head-over-heels now for the ease and convenience.