We did manage to get up to Salem, Mass to be with our daughter. She loved all the gifts that I made for her…the owl ornaments, the embroidered beret, the witch gnome, and the quilt of their house. We had a lovely time with her.
I even had a hard time coming up with what I wanted for Christmas. I settled on a year of ancestry and a smart phone photo class with Ricky Tims. Both have been great. I received an Emile Henry large loaf ceramic baker from my daughter. I made this no knead everything artisan bread in it the other day. Oh my it was good.
We have had 2 challenges in the smart phone photo class so far. The first challenge was to pick a word for the year and take a photo that represents that word. Here’s my photo.
My word is EVOLVE. This is what I said about it. These are clouds outside my house this morning. I want to evolve this year in my art quilting and try some new things. The sky in my photo is only a snapshot in time. The clouds change and evolve with the weather systems. The sky an hour later than my photo was completely different. The clouds change and evolve into something completely new. I love the texture and the grayscale of the clouds. What a sky!! Of course maybe I should have picked FINISH as my word since I have several things to finish!!
The second challenge was to take a photo from a vantage point that is not straight on and at normal eye level. Here’s my photo. Of course it’s a building!
This is an old house on my walk. The photo was taken from the left and about half way up. Some of things in the photo like the swing are seen from above and others like the spindles are seen from below. There is definitely a vanishing point on the right hand side. I took other photos for this challenge, but we can only submit one. Here are the others. The window is in my house looking up and out after a snowstorm. The others are looking up at trees with snow on them.
Sometimes it’s hard picking one photo to submit.
Thanks for reading and happy new year.
Chris
