Woodpress

My wife didn’t like the yellow line on the left of the parking lot oil picture, so I re-cropped it (and made some other minor adjustments).

When I got back to work yesterday after lunch, I noticed that the hill to the south of the office had some really interesting snow patterns. Since I had brought my nice camera to work, I went back down a little while later and took some pictures. This is one. While I was out taking […]

I drew a flower on a whiteboard.

Politics. Ugh. I’m not particularly anti-Hillary (or particularly pro-Hillary), but someone pointed out to me that “Vote for Hillary Online is so dedicated to making sure Hillary Clinton wins this election that [they’ve] started a program that rewards those of you who post positive replies about Hillary on political blogs.” Ouch. I realize that’s probably […]

My son is working on learning to do hand stands and hand walking.

This is the way the board looked at the end of a recent Banqi game I played with a friend from work (Brian Jarvis). I was red. I lost. I don’t think I’ve ever played or seen a game that involved worse luck than this one. It was remarkable. I still enjoyed playing it.

Today we had banqi lunch at Tucanos. The food was delicious (as always), and one of the servers was interested in the game, so I gave him the woodpress URL and told him to search for Banqi. Since it’s been a while since I posted this information, I’ll do it again for his convenience: The […]

I painted this in openCanvas. In contrast to the “no reference” pumpkin, for this painting I loaded the original photo and painted over it, using it as reference. Some people might call that tracing. :) Here’s the original photo, which I took: You might wonder about the framing. There are multiple reasons it’s a little […]