Was at a church yard sale yesterday and they had the same setup. Pretty sure it was not a progressive church.
I don't know if you can win Inktober, but if so, you win.
You did a great hand. I googled "trek" for inspiration, expecting to see a lot of star trek images, but all I got was bikes.
I will gladly go to hell for a continuous supply of pomegranates.
There's also Silver for the elderly.
Hurricane in Florida. A work friend invited my mom and I to stay at her place if it got bad. I'd spent time with her and her husband before, and thought we would have a good time playing games and hanging out.
It started to get bad, so we headed over. She didn't answer the door or phone. Finally she comes out, says we woke her up (it's 3pm) and laughed at us getting "freaked out" by a little wind. Guess we were supposed to wait for the full hurricane force winds before driving across town. Spent the remainder of my birthday on the closet floor with mom and dog.
Exotic is relative, just like "foreign." What's foreign in one country is native in another. You made a great choice.
I assume it's hiding the other one in profile.
The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein, though sadly she never finished it.
See also Emergency Skin by NK Jemison.
for October 31
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Paper collage inspired by Claire North's novel The Sudden Appearance of Hope.
Hope has a condition where no one can remember she exists. You could spend an entire day getting to know her intimately, but if she's out of your eye line for 60 seconds, you forget her. The next time you see her, you're meeting her for the first time.
The concept was great, the execution started off great, but towards the end, the pacing slowed down and it kind of fizzled out.
Incidentally, I don't have aphantasia, but my inner eye is incapable of holding onto an image. This collage is very similar to how my imagination works. I can picture a person or object, but if I try to focus on it or hold onto a detail, it morphs into something different.
Crust was very crumbly and they didn't come out of the pan nicely, but tasted great.
Acryllic paint and marker on paper.
Part of my series inspired by fiction books. This is based on Deb Rogers' Florida Woman. The book takes place on a macaque reserve, and some of the monkeys are dangerous carriers of the Herpes B virus, as depicted in the painting.
This book was more red herring than plot. I don't recommend it.
Acryllic paint on paper.
Part of my series inspired by fiction books. This one is based on Ursula K LeGuine's The Lathe of Heaven. I attempted to paint in the style of Alexej von Jawlensky. I didn't enjoy it, and don't feel it turned out well.
Mount Hood overlooking the city of Portland, OR is a big motif in the book, as is the moon. It's a short read, and a philosophical look at whether we have a responsibility to change things for the better, or avoid making them worse.
I used king Arthur's whole wheat crust, and loosely followed this recipe for toppings. I could have browned the top a little more, but I was hungry.
I wanted to practice piping without making buttercream, so I went with meringues. I got to practice with 4 different tips, but it looks like I only used two. I dipped them in ganache made from mint chocolate bars that were so dark and bitter, they were inedible on their own. And added chopped hazelnuts. They're pretty good.
On whole wheat rolls made for [email protected].
I went with letter of the prompt, if not the spirit. I didn't want a dessert this week so I made hamburger rolls. They did get rolled around for shaping. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Early Riser by Jasper Fforde. I loved his Thursday Next series, the Nursery Crimes books were good, and Shades of Grey was fantastic. I'm having trouble getting into this one, but it might be worth it if I can stick it out.
Idk why the following description is written in second person, when the book is in first person. If you're a fan of Douglas Adams, I recommend Jasper Fforde.
During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity.
Well, not quite.
Your name is Charlie Worthing and it's your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses.
You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense; nothing more than a quirky artefact borne of the sleeping mind.
When the dreams start to kill people, it's unsettling.
When you get the dreams too, it's weird.
When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity.
But teasing truth from Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting, ensure you aren't eaten by Nightwalkers whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food, and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk.
But so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you'll be fine.