Severe Weather Advisory

We had a crazy thunderstorm today! It hailed for about an hour. Those are the hailstones, above.

Greenwood Cemetery

 Ooog, too sunny. At least I had my purple vampire sunglasses.

 This one is my favorite:

We had family in town, and we drove out to this cemetery because they're into "letterboxing", which is a cute hobby, and there was a letterbox at one of the graves. We found it, but it was so hot out, we fled soon after. The next morning, the temperature dropped 20 degrees in about an hour, and it was cold and windy all day.

Happy May Day

I few days ago I took these pictures of a beautiful stormy sky at dusk. This city has wonderful light.

I am prolific today...

Here is another thing I made! Kind of a hoodoo-woman outfit. I love making doll clothes. I used to just make human-sized costumes, but the fabric was so expensive, and my friends would never show up for fittings on time... now I can keep my models in a box! Wait, that sounds wrong.

If anyone is curious, this doll is made by a Japanese company called Obitsu. Obitsu makes a variety of dolls in Japan, including the most popular Barbie analogue. Obitsu dolls are often used as artist's models (like those wooden mannequins) because they're very poseable. I got mine blank, and bought a special option head, which I painted. So she's all customized by me. Her name is Nell (after the heroine of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age) and I've had her for three years. You can get your very own (they ain't cheap, though) here . (Nell is the 60cm size.)

Random photos

These are old pictures, I just put them up because they are purty. The first two are taken by Eran, on a stormy day on the coast. The bottom two are: an imperial thistle at the Little River sinkhole (Mendocino coast), a broken egg I found in the woods in CA. I think it was a great horned owl egg (it was big, like a chicken egg) that was broken by a crow.

Daisy!

This is our new kitty, Daisy. She came from the Animal Rescue New Orleans center in Jefferson. (The shelter lady told me that Daisy came from Baton Rouge originally... making her the only native Louisianan in our house.) She is a total sweetie-pie. She's pretty zippy, though, so these pictures are not very good.

Creations

This is a doll outfit I made for Etsy--it sold almost immediately. I was just reading on another blog (funny/mean Regretsy.com; you are warned) how "barn wood" makes everything look classy. It does, too. This is Knox, one of my cloth dolls. She's nekkid here, but I made her clothes later. See that tail? It's wired, and you can wrap it around your neck ad she can ride around on your shoulder. If you were inclined to do such a thing.