playing in the park

Today Quinn had to go to Taiji lessons in Winterville, so me and Mom went with and we sat in the nearby park while he was in class. It's a lovely park and I absolutely love Winterville... course, the park kind of became a screaming yard full of the people that frighten you away from Wal-Mart. They were easily drowned out by a few My Chemical Romance songs -- the cigar smoke coming from a slightly terrifying male in his twenties, however, was not.


But there was this very cute (in temperament, if not exactly looks), scrawny homeless kitten that seemed to like us, for it sat on our picnic table with us for a while and generally hung out. It was timid though, poor mite.


A cliched picture of fall... still brilliant, though, crazy color.


This was posted on a dumpster. I hope you never get the urge to occupy it for any reason, because it is simply against the law.


Cool reflections experiment.


Social Civics, despite the ancient book from which I am learning, is proving interesting.


I liked this little illustration. I would totally cross my legs when voting, how about you?


And THIS was taken as we turned the bend, but look at it. It's a gas station sign, surrounded by picnic tables.... So, after you go inside and take your pick of delicious deep-fried, packaged food, stuffed with soy lecithin and preservatives, go ahead and just lounge by the sign and eat. Or, if you are feeling really ambitious, you could just get some good ol' barbecue from the place across the street and make a picnic of it...by the gas station sign. Right.

Ttyl.

random excursion into pictureland

These pics are from a few days ago, when I decided to get out the camera. I was also cleaning my room, so this is what I produced...


this was kind of fun, 10 second delay, a view from my desk...


I love my pearl necklace.


This is the leaf from a flower that was a boutonniere from Sara's wedding... it's an old leaf.


Bubblegum. Took me nearly twenty minutes to get this shot, and it could be better. :P


I like fans.

:)

it's genius

I'm writing this post to simply announce that I am in LOVE with the new Genius feature on iTunes. Apple, you did good.

Making ten different playlists for different moods filled with different songs was tiresome, especially when I'm really picky about music and I like some songs sometimes and I don't like them other times and it all just gets icky and time-consuming and if I had to quickly minimize iTunes while song searching because Mom walked by in her secret, lets-see-if-Caroline-is-slacking walk... I thought I would collapse. *yay for drama!*

Anyways, Genius is fantastic. All you do is choose a song that you feel like...



Click the Genius button at the bottom of the page....



And then you can listen to a whole soundtrack of songs that are like the first one you chose. Then you can save the playlist you made, like I did for those four songs, or you can clear and start over, or hit refresh to make a new selection if you don't dig what it gave you.

*sigh.*

(and I had no idea how easy it was to take pictures of you screen... kind of fun, really.)

holy moly

i would like to just say how absolutely

weird

it is

that i thought about my old blog TODAY, September 29, 2008

because September 29, 2007 was the last time i posted....

how freaky.
but ultimately cool.

cool little dude

this little dude's been hanging out with us on the porch. he's really tiny for a preying mantis.

mom said he would spit tobacco on me if i took a macro pic of him.
he didn't spit tobacco on me.

however, if he did spit tobacco, i wonder if it would be this:



hmmm....

sunsets and watercolor

You'd think, being a graphic artist of sorts (or at least an aspiring graphic artist) that my blog would at least have bit of spark to it, maybe some graphics... you would think.

I took pictures today, for the first time in mooonths. Sara has completely spoiled me with her delicious cameras and my (or technically Mother's) little FinePix 6 megapixel point-and-shoot really made me kind of sick. However, I was inspired by the Photoshop Seminar I went to a few weeks ago to collect pictures of textures, so that I can use them on pictures and so forth and so on. So I came up with quite a few.

And then there was a gorgeous sunset.







Then it stormed and so Mother (Mother does know best...) made me unplug my computer. I was left to wander rather pathetically around the house and snap unnecessarily at my blood relations until I thought of maybe making a watercolor painting.

So I did.




i really like this pic. drink up.