We went back to Karamatura park this morning. I walked a bit further than I did yesterday & also did some scurrying in the stream & around some rocks. It is not as much as I used to do once upon a young-me ago, but more than I have done in a year or 2.It has felt good to get out and get a few walks in. I am glad the holidays this year fell the ( Read more... )

Day 2 of the New Year & we've managed 2 short walks in the 2015. That is really good. I won't hold my breath for keeping up with it, but hey it's a good start. Yesterday was Waikumete, a cemetery near us that has some nice older (1800s) areas to walk in with wildflowers that have come over from South Africa & Britain. They have grown through ( Read more... )

Quick post, been busy this weekend. Here's the 22 gauge Viking knit copper bracelet I took up to Craftworld today. I am still working on the contest piece but this was to replace another masculine bracelet I sold about a week ago.


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Here you go, the shot of me taken by the photo studio at Calico, Calif. I got to choose one of 3 or 4 different options to dress up as and I knew this is what I wanted. For those of you who don't know, it's an officer's uniform from the Union side of the Civil War. I usually wear a union kepi hat. (I'm wearing my kepi hat in this older shot of me ( Read more... )

This is the head-space I've been in for awhile. I don't mean the "oh look LOLcat" head-space.


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Not sure if this is complete or if I'll tweak it some more ( Read more... )

Here you go, a few photos from Taupo Joust. I don't know how far I am through them but guess only about 1/4, maybe 1/3 so there will be more. I wanted to at least get these ones up for you to enjoy.

And here's the other photo of me. This was taken by a couple from work I ran into at the Faire. It's before I really started burning.


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This week's subject is "nerd". I had a few ideas but nothing really struck me so I've staged a photo/self portrait. I used my gear and C's while we were out at the Domain today to shoot it. I call it photo nerd.

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