Monday. Hot.

Yes. It's Palm Springs in July and yes, I did fry an egg outside. I was a little disappointed to see I'd cut off the bottom of the sign, but didn't even consider reshooting, as I nearly fried myself and my equipment in the making of this video clip. Thanks to Ravyn for the animation!












It's hot up in Quincy too, where our Cool Guy Poppet is enjoying music and hanging out with lots and lots...and lots of people at the Sierra Music Festival. I wish him (and Pete!) a great time and a safe trip home.





















Yesterday we swam for a bit, Ben and Orion and I, then finally just sort of gathered around the cooler water coming out of the pool fill. Pretty soon we found ourselves unconsciously reaching our hands out to it, like campers around a fire and, ironically, talking about how California is burning. Well, Ben and me. Not so much Orion, who stayed submerged except to get air.



I'm sending out the last of the poppets from the Summer Solstace sale. Thanks to everyone. I'm looking forward to new POT photos and LOLpoppets too.
I think, to keep the Alice in Wonderland and Midsummer Night's Dream series from overtaking the gallery sales, I'll start putting some of those up in between events. I'm also going to do my best to make a few things, like Little Red Poppets, Little Blue Poppets, Little Pink always available.

That said, I'm getting to work.

Have a good Monday!

Fourth. Desert. Play.

Obviously your artist is taking a day off to play. I begin, sort of, to learn to play LOLpoppets. There are now a dozen or so various photos on the LOLpoppets on flickr page and Spare Parts.

(More will likely appear once readers return to the workplace...)

Orion and I are celebrating today simply with Pizza and Gamecube and soon, night swimming and underwater photograpy.

Underwater lomography actually, with a "frogeye" (a gift from Mimi, whom we seem to have adopted (ok, drafted) ) as the studio's resident HAC (hot asian chick.)

I have no idea what sorts of images we'll get.

It's just the two of us, as often is. Pete is in Northern California for the High Sierra Music Festival---he took a Hippie Poppet and a LRP for POT. I'm looking forward to the pics. Aubrey will be 16 this month, so is anywhere BUT here these days though there is the occasional sighting. Ben has been gone for nearly two months, moving into his house---which is a very cool old Palm Springs house---but should be back soon.

So now we are donning "glow" bracelets, and goggles, mostly just for fun. Later, Oreos and ice cream, and fireworks viewed from the hill.

Happy Fourth of July