drAnn's Art

Flowers Speak Louder Than Words

Time to Shout:

This is the sort of silly nonsense I sit around drawing in the motel room after a day of driving.

The salmon probably would have loved some peas, but when Chef Kitty invited the salmon for dinner, he had something else in mind.

We didn't have salmon that night, but the Quiznos sandwich was tasty.  When I wrote this article for Helium (Our Favorite Fast Food) they had not started serving flat earth fruit chips.  Not every Quiznos has them, but WOW, yummers.  Just watch out for the sugar!  They taste sweet because they are, well, SWEET!

That Cartoon Kitty Rocks!

I love the stuff I bought at Borracho's Online Store, especially the Chili Pepper Girl Messenger Bag:

My Painting is Now Functional!

The design is from my original oil painting.  The original, on 16 x 20" stretch canvas, was sold in November, along with a copy of my Seagull at Sunset:

Roses and Poppies

The courtyard of the Ramada Inn at Santa Nella, California has had a profusion of beautiful flowers every time we visited there, but the roses are most spectacular:

They are yellow, peach, pink, red, and white:

White Roses in Santa Nella and Keene Poppies

The courtyard is also lined with huge pots of geraniums:

Online Calendar

I tried to put the 30 boxes calendar widget on here, but it displayed private posts here even when I was logged out.  Hmmm, something was not right, so I'll try just posting the link here instead.  Then at least I can find myself when on the road:

Calendar

Anyone know of a good online calendar that supports scalable JPEG images in the events, please let me know. 

Borracho Now Has His Own Shop

He's a pretty confused kitty cat, but as the admiration has gone to his fat little head, he wants to offer the public a chance to get his mug on a mug.  Or a tile.  Or a T.

"Borracho!" I said, "You don't even wear clothes."

"So what?"

"And Mom," he continued, "You have to make me a Thank You Page!"

So I did:

What that little cat wants, he gets!

If you have not visited yet, here is the infamous link:

http://www.cafepress.com/drannsart

Borracho Has Gotten into Mischief!

Yes, and I put his "wanted" picture up on a test Blog over on Blogger:

http://drannart.blogspot.com/

There is a cute cartoon over there, too, called "Math Paper" that you might enjoy.  It is the first cartoon I've linked to any of my blogs that I didn't draw myself.  I hope the artist feels honored.

While I'm being geeky, might as well tell you that Borracho told Brad over at Yahoo's Mash (Beta) that I'd like an invite and one was in my mailbox before I even finished a game of Hi-Lo on Moola.  So now I suspect I know who has been winning all the games I lost.  I'm playing as AnnonyMouse over there from now on :-)

So Mash has been described as a ghost town lately, but I took a look and it has (should I say had?) some interesting features.  After playing with it a bit more I plan to do some sort of review, but it might be a good idea to learn something about AJAX first.    Hah, while I'm doing that I hope the folks over at Yahoo are still working on a better name for the place.   Is it going to be MyYahoo?   Did it morph into Yahoo 360?  Not Bebo, I hope.   Who names these things?   

I will send Borracho over to take a look.

Here is a start:

Borracho's Blog

One thing Borracho and I both have noticed about social networking programs is that they could do more to encourage people, especially young people, to take more care in protecting their online identities.   Many of these programs go and find information about new users and try to interject that information into the user profile.  They seem to be obsessed with  displaying the member's location and age and other information I think everyone is better off leaving unsaid.  What is wrong with using categories such as "teenager" or "young adult" instead of someone's exact age.  I am fine with a generalized location, but when they ask for "State of"  I usually type in "Confusion." 

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No more Junk

Borracho was sad when he noticed his can of tuna was empty, but he will be dancing a jig when he sees how his Mom got rid of all those unsolicited catalogs that were turning vacation mail forwarding into a nightmare.

Want to get rid of yours, too?  Just go here:  Catalog Choice

Like It? Digg it Here:

Digg Me?

What!?  You don't like it?  Go get your own!  Here, I'll even help:

This Cactus is not a Weed!

In my last post I showed you my favorite bedraggled cactus plant in its natural habitat.  Now here is an art shot of the same beast:

Waddya think?

The Long and the Short

Our landscape our here where the rubber meets the road can get pretty bleak, but someone is always chipping in to liven the place up.  Here is a long shot of the mural on the neighborhood wall:

If you think the amount of red paint on that curb is overkill, you haven't stuck your hand anywhere near that cactus plant yet.

Oh, and if you still think it is a weed, check this out:

For a closeup of that flower from another view, go Closeup