Susan Barrett Price's Blog, page 50

Doodling Means Progress?

Trying to develop some little visuals for my book project. Something simple… iconic. Roads. Dangling. Risk-taking. Waters rising. Epiphanies.

Anyway, work in progress.

Week In Review: Back to "Normal"

I like to say that wherever Jim and I are together, that's home. But there's something about our Penfield nest that's unbeatable — comfy old routine, homemade soup for dinner, reliable wi-fi, the predictably annoying technical glitches, popcorn, the bird demanding to be the center of attention, mild guilt and procrastination…

My official week in review>>>

Back to Writing: Going Postmodern

After spinning my wheels for a couple days,  grumbling that vacation left me creatively uninspired. I re-opened my writing project to where I left it so many weeks ago. And — shazzam! – I was back in the grove. I liked what I was reading and immediately jumped into revisions.

Today's title is "Grand Exits: Mary's Guide to Wising Up." Is there such a thing as a third-person memoir, where you recognize that all the people who vastly influenced your life really only existed for a moment in time? ...

Roadtrip: Lingering Reflections

I have work piled up — writing, selling — but I'm having trouble letting go of our time on the road. This is a diagram I started in a motel room and have been working on today (in Adobe Illustrator). There are words and philosophical stuff that go with it but — because it's 3:30 and I have other stuff to do — I'll just post it as is for the moment.

Roadtrip Photo Slideshow

Let's see if this works… embedding a Picasa slideshow of our trip West:

A large or full screen slideshow can be viewed on Picasa here>>>

My webpage gives a little bit more summary>>>

Frustrated

With all my gear and all my savvy, posting a little slideshow of our roadtrip should be easy, but damn… every step is frustrating me and none of the "easy" solutions are cooperating. The lines that painstakingly traced our route on Google Maps have half-disappeared. Picasa is not pulling up my "best-photo" keyword correctly. Flickr doesn't do .tif files. This on top of discovering that my web host secretly changed my password; that some stupid glitch prevented me from putting photos in my...

Roadtrip: Capturing Our Tracks

Roadtrips are about maps, landscapes,complex farming systems, interstate cloverleafs, crazy quilts of geology and occasionally the layouts of ancient abandoned villages. We are always trying to visualize where we are from above — the big picture.

The photo above perfectly conveys this idea — mysterious and inviting exploration. The remains of an ancient civilization buried in the desert? No. It's a jumble of recent footprints in the fine sand at the Aztec* Ruins National Monument in Aztec...

Roadtrip: Footprints

Charleston WV to Rochester NY

Home! Yay!!!! Sweet, sweet, sweet home. We're scurrying around in our post-vacation routine to get everything put away in its place ASAP, while checking that all systems (furnace, water, cable, computers) are in working order. So far so good. Always a big sigh of relief. About 5600 miles altogether and my old Camry did fine. Smiling.

Photos and more later.

Franklin KY to Charleston WV

We stuck to our Relaxed Route plan across the scenic parkways of southern Kentucky (mostly state road 80) and up the eastern edge on US-23. But now that we're in West Virginia, we smell home. Tomorrow, it's Road Fever on the interstates north and east to Rochester. Vrooooooom.

The last leg of our route today was actually the most dismal — pelting oh shit! rain as we neared Huntington WV — the kind of downpour that blinds you and makes you pray that no one around you loses control of their...