Black and White

For black and white day, here's my most recent drawing.

Blue

For lack of time, I'm posting a picture from Girls' Week as well as a picture from last year, but I was playing with it recently and inverted to the colors. I'm also refraining from blue quotes. Time, time, where is the time?

Red (My Favorite Color)

Another twirling picture.


And a picture of the writing on my shirt in case the skirt picture isn't red enough.

Some quotes for you:

When in doubt wear red.
Bill Blass

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness
Bill Blass

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
Jules Feiffer

Color Week Is Da Bomb!

I'm so into this color week. Not as much into my own pictures, but into looking at everyone else's. Keep up the awesome picture-taking, everyone! I'm very excited to see everyone's amazing talent. It's not too late to start color week now, if you want to...

And Steph just started posting color pictures. Hurray!

Green

Hurray for color week! I am having muchos fun taking pictures and looking at everyone else's fabulous color shots. Thanks, Liane, for getting us all to do this!

And now, for some green quotes!

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When you're green, you're growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
Ray Kroc

Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect.
Wassily Kandinsky


(I've decided I enjoy putting in a random quote, even if it doesn't have much to do with the color green.)

Yellow

I've changed my mind. I'm going to do color week! Or at least yellow day...

A few random "yellow quotes" for your enjoyment.

Yellow usually means it's not that serious.
Bobby Unser

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it.
Alfred Hitchcock

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Vincent Van Gogh

(The Alfred Hitchcock quote is my favorite...)

What a horrible thing yellow is.
Edgar Degas

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.
Vincent Van Gogh

Quote of the Day

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you. ~Anonymous.

Girls' Week Pictures

I finally had my girls' week pictures developed. Usually, I take tons of pictures at Girls' week and have them developed right away. However, this year I only took one and a half rolls (within fifteen minutes). But here are a few of my favorites. The rest will be on Webshots as soon as I get my laptop's internet working.

Toad Mauler

Call me locust squasher, cricket mangler, toad mauler, snake shredder...Or just Cara-who-likes-to-mow-the-lawn.
Mowing the lawn is one of my favorite summer things to do! Just don't look too closely at our lawns next time you come because even though "someone" did a beautiful job cutting them, they're starting to turn brown, copper, orange--the grass is dying. Crabgrass is starting to dominate. Anyway, enough about the grass. More about the wildlife in the grass: there were toads hopping every which way to avoid being shredded by the mower. Once I saw one fly belly up about three feet to the side of the mower. I wonder if he had been hit by the lawn mower or just jumped out of the way. Hmm. This makes me think of Katherine's Toad (or frog?) story. The one about running over it and its guts spraying everywhere. I tried to find it in her archives but I didn't. :) I also ran over a few crickets and grasshoppers, the poor creatures. I would hate to be a little jumping insect and have to get away from the mower. It would be a nightmare. Maybe I should stop mowing so I don't scare them so much. I watched the grass to the side of the mower as I pushed it, and all the grass in about a foot wide area next to the part I was mowing would move with creatures franticly hopping away from the blades of death.

Enough about mowing. Time to go do some more work.

A Thing of Beauty...and Luxury...and Comfort...and Money...and Power...

World's Most Beautiful Dog...Hands Down

I watched "Angels in the Outfield" for the first time this evening. Although it's not on my favorite movie list, I got quite a few good laughs out of it.

It was strange to see Matthew McConaughey not being cocky!

Baseball just doesn't seem to be up Adrien Brody's alley, but he was fun to laugh at.