A.M. Offenwanger's Blog, page 35
May 24, 2017
Wordless Wednesday: Sandbag Seymour, the Canada Goose, Supervising the Proceedings
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Filed under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged: Canada Geese, Canada Goose, flooding, Sandbag Seymour, sandbagging, Wordless Wednesday
May 18, 2017
Crackpots
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One of the great things about pottery is that clay is very forgiving. Every potter has a slop and trimmings bucket sitting by their wheel, and when you’re in the early stages of your pottery skills acquisition, most of what you attempt to make ends up in there as well. But you haven’t wasted anything at this stage – you just let it dry out, re-wet it, wedge (=knead) it back together, and you’re back in business. So all those crackpots you have on the shelf? As long as they haven’t been fired...
May 17, 2017
Wordless Wednesday: Storm-Whipped Beach
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Filed under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged: flooding, nature drama, spring storm, storm, Wordless Wednesday
May 10, 2017
Wordless Wednesday: Walnut Bud
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Filed under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged: random, spring, walnut bud, walnut tree, Wordless Wednesday
May 5, 2017
Watching Frank Churchill
[image error]I’ve been watching the 1996 Emma again. No, not that one, the other one. The one with Kate Beckinsale. Yes, I like the Gwyneth Paltrow version a lot too, and the 2008 Romola Garai one – in fact, so far the Kate Beckinsale one has been my least favourite of the three; I only own a copy on taped-from-TV VHS (I know, right?). But I pulled it back out lately for reasons of research completely unrelated to Jane Austen.
You see, I’m using the Frank Churchill in that movie as a model for one of the...
May 3, 2017
April 27, 2017
Harmless in Seattle: an Easter Trip
A few more pictures from my trip. I’d only been in Seattle once before, on a two-day stint during that summer of ’86 when I first came to Canada. All I remember of that time is Pike Place Market with the stalls full of fish on ice – in fact, that’s the image that pops into my head whenever someone says “Seattle”: the entrance of the market, and iced fish. So this time, we went to Pike Place Market again – and guess what, it hasn’t changed one bit. Dead fish and all. I assume they’re different...
April 26, 2017
April 19, 2017
April 16, 2017
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter from my house to yours.
Filed under: this and that Tagged: daffodils, Easter, Easter bunny, Easter eggs, Osterglocken
