PhotoLog

CREATE - Chicago, 2013 - There & Back

September 1, 2013

It's hard to believe that I just got home a week ago, today!?  This week has been a blur of catching up, looking forward, and a bevy of new surprises!  But, before we rush headlong in to all of that  ...a look back at my week away, on a grand adventure, to my very 1st Vendor Faire!  We had a BLAST!  From the ride, to the students, to the Faire, and all the way back home -- there was laughter, music, good food, and wonderful memories!

...setting out on our grand adventure!
Confused by the difference in price posted & what we
paid in the land of Toll Booths:  we aren't towing anything!?

Me:  "Ooh, OOH -- LOOOK!" *scrambling for the phone*
Jodi:  "What?"
Me:  "It's a DOUBLE!"
Jodi:  "Oh, I thought you had a thing for Beetle Bug Cars..."

...the green rolling hills of WV
I couldn't get this song out of my head

Charleston, WV
The capital in the orange glow of sunset

The sun leaves us
sinking below distant hills in WV

Lovely Moonrise
in Pliny, WV

Not so lovely,
night-time road construction in WV

Goodnight, Moon!
...above Dayton
...above the Best Western Plus

A photo of a photo
...it's better this way -- it was really dark when we
actually saw downtown Dayton!

Into the Land of Corn we go!
Indiana is a looong state,
with LOADS o' corn!

A lofty claim!
...proven wrong, later in the day

Where ELSE?
There were copious corn fields,
and several of these signs!

In addition to corn?
Award winning CHEESE!

Biggest. Starbucks. Sign. EVER!Lebanon, IN
...also, the best coffee and nicest staff!

C'mon!  Baby don't you wanna go?
...all the signs had me channeling my inner
Blues Brothers!

Surreal Beauty in the Corn Fields
From a distance, it looked like there were only
a few of these; it turned out to be MANY!

They were other-worldly
in their appearance.

Guardians of the corn

  

Maggie & Sally
...smiling faces upon our arrival!

Nightfall
...from our new digs at the Wyndham Lisle
Home away from home, for 4 days

Sunrise, Chicago
...day one!

Beautiful student work
from Jodi's 1st class:  Texturize This!

Wednesday's "WOW" Moment:
I may not be teaching, but I can still share!

     Annette                       Ellen & Linda                             Linda & Sandy

                                Carolina                                                       Iris

Happy Bookbinders are We!
...a handful of my visitors from my Wednesday night
Make & Take (single regret:  I didn't get pictures of all of them)

The Main Event
Friday Night - Vendor Faire
...wonderful vendors, fabulous students/shoppers, an amazing debut!

A New Artist Pal
...a visit from the lovely Jacqueline Newbold,
incredible artist and bringer of wine ;)
Just behind her, another new bud, the lovely Angela!

Heading back Home
Good morning, Indianapolis!

Big Sky in Indiana
...if the skies really are bigger in Wyoming,
I don't think my poor heart could stand it!

More Corn - Indiana
...I admit, it's really all about that gorgeous sky,
but one cannot overlook the obvious
...there was all that corn!

 

Back into the hills
...under a beautiful sky in Ohio

More Sky
...can't seem to help myself -- the sky speaks to me

 

Last Leg of the Journey
I took the wheel for our last day on the road,
and Jodi manned the camera!
...I am not the only one who loves the sky ;)

Crossing Over the Ohio...after over-nighting in Gallipolis, we were only
minutes from entering West Virginia
photo by Jodi Ohl

Beautiful Scenery
was the order of the day -- everything looked so
vivid under that bright, blue sky!
photo by Jodi Ohl

Cows on the Hills
...grazing under a crystalline sky
photo by Jodi Ohl

Charleston, West Virginia Capital Building
...even more splendid by day!
photo by Jodi Ohl

Under a Magritte Sky
Me:  "WOW!  The sky looks like a Magritte painting!"
Jodi:  *rolls window down, turns on camera,
snaps, grins, rolls window up*
We're good like that!
photo by Jodi Ohl

Out of Virginia
...heading into the Home stretch!
photo by Jodi Ohl

Under Home Skies
...I couldn't resist a photo with the phone
as we ventured closer to home
under the Carolina Blue cover!

Loaded  UP, and Headed for Home!
...it has been a most wonderful adventure

The Welcome Committee
"Where have you been?"
asks sweet Wito.

p.s.  I have NO idea why some of these are captioned in ALL CAPS -- *Blogger lives to torment me (?)*  I have spent entirely too long on this *not so* little project :-/
...as I always say:  Onward & Upward!
 - pla


Photo Notes
     All photos taken with either the Motorola Droid X2 standard camera app, or
     my beloved   Panasonic, Lumix DMC-ZS1
     *I really did start out with a list -- but JEEZ!?  ...it's a BUNCH o' photos -- c'est lia vie!*
     All photos edited for color correction using IrfanView.

 

Photo Log - Welcome

August 29, 2013

Here, you will find a plethora of photos from my creative adventures!  It occurred to me that it would be ever-so-much-more-seemly to have them on their own page (?)  I admit, this is being done in an earnest effort to streamline the whole Blogging process -- at which I am woefully "outside the box" in my approach!  

Apparently the "Rule" of 'short, sweet, and to the point' just won't take root in this scattered noggin of mine.  Hopefully, you will enjoy seeing them as much as I enjoyed the experiences that brought them to roost here.

Here's lookin' at you!