Was missing northern Michigan the other day so I made some pictures of the views I see when I go riding in the hills above Petoskey. They're from memory, so I don't think it really looks much like this, in case you are from Petoskey and don't recognize anything.
Something about having just a month before teaching starts again makes me think of the projects I should devote these remaining weeks to. One project I just concluded was to finish reading a long two part article on surfing that I came across in a 1992 New Yorker that I found while cleaning my filing cabinet. That was the first year I started subscribing, and it's pretty amazing how different the magazine was back then. Smaller type, longer articles, less glam. In tracking down part I of the article, I learned that, through the New Yorker website, I can browse and print articles from every issue ever published! Amazing! It's like a free reverse-subscription.
Not sure what my other projects need to be, though, after hearing a story on NPR this morning, I am developing a plan to make crows like me. I also think I am going to paint a series of telephone poles covered with those vines with orange trumpet-like blooms on them. But now I can't find any of them around town, so I can't do it en plein air. Got to get started on something, though.
Makes me wish I could draw something in my sketchbook. My skills never quite live up to my ideas, so I get annoyed. Summer projects sound fun. How about one involving a picnic below the bulb-lit tree with a few friends of yours? Hmmm. . . who to invite?
ReplyDeleteNice picture. (: I like the colors. Summer projects are always fun. You know, you could officially join the mystery project thing. :D That would count, right?
ReplyDeleteI heard that crow show this morning. I have long been suspicious of crows.
ReplyDeleteI was wary of them too, for a long time, and then all of the crows in our park died, or went away, and I felt bad. But now they have come back, and it has changed the way I feel about them.
ReplyDeleteWhat I would like to do is basically the opposite of the experiment they talked about in the NPR story, but I'm not sure how to go about it yet. I don't know what crows like.
They don't like to be banded, clearly, especially by people in caveman masks. One can hardly blame them.
ReplyDeleteI like crows. They're so much smarter than most other birds. Or at least they act that way.
ReplyDeleteCrows are insanely smart birds. I kind of wish I had one as a pet/sidekick.
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