Keeping this moment alive

Made for the 'Ad Challenge' at Designer Digitals using:
*May 6th Ad Challenge goodie from Jennifer Adams Donnelly
*string by Holly McCaig's Charmed Alpha
*eyelet by Valeri Brumfield

and another version:

*May 6th Ad Challenge goodie from Jennifer Adams Donnelly
*string, photo holders and date stamp by Holly McCaig's Charmed Alpha
*eyelet by Valeri Brumfield
*designer edge template by Shellyrae Cusbert
*peek-a-boo papers, grunge2 by Tracy Ann Designs

The beach cures the bitchies

All the stress of these art deadlines has got the better of me this week. I was a tad cranky and was not looking on the bright side of life * hence the repost of the tsunami video. Today I took a stroll up the coast and cured the bitchy blues.
Nothing centers you like a good a beach

and a rock of yappy sea lions.

And ironicly, the nice beach picture was at Seal Rock and the sea lions you see here were at Heceta Beach. You can see more of today's pictures at my flickr account. (look to the right side bar for that link)

Coast Video

OK, this takes forever to load, but if you want to wait around, this is the video I took when Amanda & I drove up the coast, 2 weeks ago. It's from my digital camera, so I appologize right now for the 'wiggle' and the glaring sun on the screen. Other than that - turn up the sound so you can hear the surf crash, and enjoy.

http://www.artwerx.us/page/page/1890002.htm

Weather ... then and now

It has been so nice and sunny all week here, but the weeks before that were another story... rain rain rain and more rain. The road to civilization (Eugene) would even close due to the combination of high tides and too much rain. I was cleaning pics of my camera and forgot I had these... just 2 miles out of Florence, on the way to Eugene. We got through just in time before another closure.


This week Amanda and I went for a nice drive up the coast and took these shots:

Tuesday Pat and I went to Depoe Bay. I'm in love with the beach there - more so than the beach here which can be hard to access because of the dunes. I fell in love with a chipmunk that I named Kripsy Kreme beacause he was a little on the chubby side. Feeding him out of my hand was fun enough, but he also let me pet him. Of course I wanted to bring him home, but Pat played "grown up" and said no. Oh how I miss Kripsy Kreme.

This gull was a hysterical. He was wacthing us feed the chipmunks and he "lauged" when they started wrestling with eachother for food.