Sunrise Over Wright Quad
Clementine
Clementines exist to remind us that winter cannot last forever.
Esther’s Senior Yearbook Photo
Artubus, Indiana University, 1923
I’ve got a couple of photos of Esther, but not many. This is actually quite lovely in an unfussy kind of way. She was, I think, an unfussy kind of woman.
Beautiful Day
It’s supposed to be 50F today. And I don’t want to jinx anything, but when I got to work this morning, it was 74F on my floor. HUZZAH! It was warm at work yesterday, too, and I’ll be damned if people weren’t complaining about it.
From the "You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up" Files
Rainy Day
Gimme!
Wherever the green beans are, there’s Franny, hoping one will jump into her mouth.
Raindrop
This. This is what we have been looking at for days and days and weeks and weeks. It finally cleared up, and it looks like it will stay mostly dry for the next few days.
I wouldn’t mind winter so much if we could just see the sun once occasionally.
Cardinal
This little guy stopped by a couple of weeks ago. I love that we have cardinals year round. They’re like bright and cheerful little strawberries in the midst of the winter greys.
A Visitor
We had a yearling deer visit. Franny was absolutely beside herself, because I was a giant meanypants and wouldn’t let her bark at it.
I Made a Book
The Mirage
three needle, single sheet Coptic bound book using recycled materials
7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches
The boards used to belong to a college yearbook. The pages were cut down from larger pieces I did years ago and meant to bind but never got around to it. They were single folded sheets, then, which would have been easy to do as a Coptic binding with single-sheet sections. But I’ve been wanting to try out one of Keith Smith’s single sheet Coptic bindings, so I decided to cannibalize some old work to practice on.
Why single-sheet Coptic? Because I’ve got all kinds of single sheets of things that I want to turn into books, but I don’t want to stab-bind them. I want the pages to lay completely flat.
It’s not perfect. Because I was working with single, unfolded sheets, it was a little too easy to get them flipped upside down. Which I did. Which meant that the center section of sewing is a little skewed because the center holes in the flipped sheets did not line up properly. Also, though this is actually less annoying, those pages are now upside down. I’ll have to go in and rework them so that they make sense. Story of my life. Boys and girls: Never attempt bookbinding while drinking bourbon. It’s a bad combination for a lot of reasons. Like blood.
When Art Attacks
red paper boat 