Testing...

So I discovered the blog app for my Android phone and, crazy as this seems, I'm currently typing this up at the bus stop while I wait. ;-)

I get such a kick out of this phone, plus it takes pretty decent shots.

I have yet to find a decent free photo editor app but I'm still looking.

Okay I'm going to hit publish before my bus arrives and see if everything shows up in proper order.

Hiking in the Clouds

It was raining so hard this morning that not even Bean would come out with me today. I'd planned for Gowlland Todd but ended up at Mt. Work instead and climbed to the summit through a forest-scented soup of warm fog and rain. I ended up drenched from head to foot but was still too hot to wear more than one layer of clothing. A proper summer morning in the rainforest! I left the Nikon at home, so all of these photos I took on my Samsung phone.

Carving rubber in the sunshine

I was out hiking at Matheson Lake early this morning with Bean and a friend, and then out to Patti's for an afternoon sitting outside by her pond and carving stamps in the studio. A pretty good Canada Day, really.
Here are a couple of pages from my small Strathmore journal showing two of the new stamps I made: the messy, messy pattern, and a long cloud. I put them over top of an existing background and then played with pen and pencil crayon.

And here are some shots from the Matheson Lake hike.

Playing with white lines

Watered down fluid acrylic background with green Pitt pen and white gel pen.

Fun with phones and Project Noah

I caved and got myself a smartphone... not for the phone part, but for the apps and the email. :) Yes, I'm very silly.

Anyway, one of the free Android apps is for Project Noah which is an online database documenting wildlife and biodiversity around the world using the photos uploaded by its members. It's way too fun, and Bean definitely does not approve, as it means even more stops to take photos. With my phone I can take the photo and automatically upload it to my PN page from wherever I am.

For instance this honeysuckle:

I now know its scientific name of lonicera ciliosa. I'm such a nerd. :)

Here are a few more shots I took with my new phone:

What a strange week it's been

So have some strange art.



The next lot is from my graph paper Moleskine journal which travels with me everywhere in my backpack, usually with a pack of Pitt pens.











Have some random hiking shots from last Saturday to go along with them.

My dog is the cutest dog in the universe.

I enter into evidence, Exhibit A:A spread in my small Strathmore mixed media journal... I have no clue what's going on here. I was playing with stamps and it got out of hand.


And some shots from my hike today with Bean.




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