So much for posting once a week, eh?

The grandparents arrived home yesterday, along with Fuzzbutt. We're getting a new motorhome again; bigger, diesel, and with adequate suspension.

Besides a couple of T-shirts, they brought me back a case of Chil Koot Lager from Whitehorse (and only available from there). It's a decent tasting beer.

The lawn is turning to seed very nicely and many weeds have been removed, however there is still a butt load of work left before the lawn can be mowed. This is without discussing the constant trimming of trees and shrubs.

There seems to be so much less work to do in winter (also somewhat less fun to be had).

I'm still alive and breathing. Who would have thought that not working could take up so much time, but then with work once u're of for the day there usually isn't much time left to get into circumstances that keep u away from the computer for days/weeks.

I've seen woodpeckers around, and found what appears to be an old nesting tree at the far end of the Vienna Woods. I've also gotten a few more deer shots (this time on 800 speed).

Seems just about everywhere i look (and i'm riding my bicycle so i'm covering some pretty good ground) i find Saskatoon berry bushes (the berries here in Grand Forks look to be ready in two-three weeks, roughly) and Oregon Grape shrubs (although i've only seen any with berries).

I also had mangoes for the first time a few days ago. A friend called and asked if i wanted to go to the beach. I had only had one hour of sleep but i went and we ate mangoes under the shade of some trees (the craziest part would probably be that i was expecting the call when i went to sleep and i knew that i was only going to get one or two hours).

Things so far are going well living with my mother for the month. I've pruned trees at three in the morning using a little dollar store LED "miner's" style head light, and i've been weeding the law that we're allowing to go to seed for the present time.

Now, i have to start and get ready for Karaoke tonight.

*just a lightly edited semi-abstract thing today.

Fire & Frozen Steel

So much to do these days, and still only 24 hours in a day. Just getting my daily blog fix can take up to an hour, at least having subscribed to the RSS feeds of my favourites saves time, no more loading ten or twenty pages that haven't been updated.

Film to scan, pictures to edit, books to read, prints to make, (an affection starved Shih Tzu to pet so that I only have one hand free to type with). Even if I didn't expose any new film for the next three months, I probably couldn't get caught up on everything, and if I did, there'd just be more to do. There will be more to do.

Oh well, at least I'm not bored.

The photo is something new, shot 26 January this year. What does it mean? it means I've finished scanning the first roll of film of 2007, that's what it means. The bridge over the Granby river, and a very small part of Highway #3.

Froze my ass off to get it, it was worth it.

Made the print today, like 20 minutes ago, and I Love It. So I'm sharing the colour inverted image that I printed it from (well a down sized version anyway, click on it to see it in all of its 400x600 glory [did I mention I LOVE IT?]).

I went to the bar last night. It was dead, I mean quiet as hell. I just seems that this sort of thing happens every now and then, about once in every seven or eight Fridays. Had a pretty good time anyways, played some pool, talked, met an interesting person or two.

Thinking about going out again tonight. If I do, I might just leave the camera home for a change, even with layering etc, I've managed to get pretty cold the past two night I've gone out shooting (especially my hands).

Went to Penticton today, got a roll of film developed. Several promising shots, I'd say about 8, not counting similars. Still have to scan and see what's really there though.

This one was shot the beginning of this year, but I count it as part of last years work (my "filing system" is based around complete rolls of film, it's simple and let's me easily reference any negative I've shot since the system was implemented in June '05. Before that time, things are just a mess). When I shot this, I was considering mostly the abstract qualities of shape and light.

While I was doing the post work, I inverted the colours, just to be sure the forms/patterns worked. I actually liked that way more, but didn't know if my printer had a large enough colour space. A day later, I'm tempted just to say fuck it and try making a print anyway, it's not like a $1.50 in materials is gonna break the bank.