little space guys made of ice

These pictures are weeks old, but in my winter art slump they have stayed on my camera until just today, when the sun has pulled me outside to take pictures and I was reminded of these from this cold day.
I love the way the lake changes in winter. It gets these crusts of ice that morph and melt and tower and crash and change all the time. I like looking at the progress as it goes through its stages. As I carefully crunched through the snowdrifts and icedrifts and sand-ice-snow drifts, the waves kept crashing against the ice-mountains that had formed at the edge. Bursts of thick grey water with chunks of ice exploded into the air. I found a snow fort, and also these funny little ice forms that looked like bowls tilted on their sides. Or a vast army of snowball space men.

stories of american majesty and wandering

new music tuesday! new month of me trying to be better about blogging. Really don't know what happened to March (March? March?! I see you in my dayplanner but on this blog space of creativity and free time you are nowhere to be found. sigh). It was certainly quite eventful, I got a second part time job as an Interior Design Personal Assistant for a wonderful designer. I took many pictures of snow on te beach. I took some holga, drew some drawings, and have been designing away.

But regardless! Today I blog. About a discovery from last night....

Thank you thank you Josh Ritter for not only being one of my absolute favorite singer/songwriter/preformers but also for having me stumble upon www.daytrotter.com! seriously. go right now, make an account.
free music. beautiful music. good bands. easy downloads!

my first few downloads...an interesting little impulsive mix.
josh ritter
au revoir simone
bon iver
high places
horse feathers
the low anthem
the morning benders
peter bjorn and john
the tallest man on earth
yeasayer