a kaleidoscope of interests
On Mondays, Ellen Crimini-Trent publishes a tutorial to make a miniature watercolor painting on a 3×3 square. She calls it Mini Monday Madness. You can find her on YouTube here. I’ve made bunches of these and I’ve even roped in my family and friends to make some too. They are fun because they take less […]
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For date night, Tom and I painted together. We looked at this reference image and painted our own versions.
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I came across Paul Clark’s YouTube channel for watercolor painting and decided to try his tutorials for grasses and trees. I have some laughable attempts at painting grass and trees on my own even after watching tutorials from other YouTubers, so I was eager to learn. I like his style of teaching. It’s quick enough […]
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Besides spending hours discussing our New Year’s goals, we worked and played. A nice end to 2020 and a welcome beginning to 2021.
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Near the beginning of the COVID lockdown of 2020, I decided to do a couple of watercolor painting projects. I quickly learned how deficient my skills and supplies are, so I signed up for an online watercolor class by Shayda Campbell.
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One hundred and seventy steps off from forest road 512, there is a campsite at the confluence of the Little Missouri River & Long Creek. The campsite is at a turn and river crossing on the Eagle Rock Loop trail so hikers frequently walk through camp. Some of them need directions. Most of them say “hi”. One of them asked for some napkins. It’s a beautiful spot.
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You can’t cut these apron strings. A string is simply text. That’s it. I don’t know why programmers don’t just say text, but they don’t. They call it strings.
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A path in programming is not a treelined trail through a park. A path is the “address” to a file on your computer. The address is made of folder names until the very last one which may be a file name. It doesn’t have to be a file name. It could also be the name […]
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This is not an l , or an i, or a 1, or a capital I. It’s called a pipe. It’s a character on a keyboard that is simply a vertical bar. You find it on the backslash key on a QWERTY keyboard. What does it do? OR If you put two of them together, […]
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Audience The target audience is people with manage websites and who are likely to buy Christmas presents. . I think this showed up on my facebook feed because the internet algorithms know that I have many websites at various hosting companies. Seascape Principles Least Resistance It’s the Christmas season and everyone needs gift ideas. This […]
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