- we go to Treasure Island to watch the Dragon Races and we get lost for a while in “Dragon Land” but end up too far away to get a good look at the dragon boats themselves
- Matthew and I trade the camera back and forth and an admission that I’m really bad at actually printing or ordering prints – despite the thousands of pictures I take
- thoughts on the boys’ expectation that TV should always be “fast-forwardable”
- a cool new animated show, Jane and the Dragon (she’s a great redhead!) [based on the book
by Martin Baynton]
- preliminary no-sew work on a dragon-themed curtain remake for the boys’ room and a wonderful stack of fat quarters
- an excellent, lyrical, and inspiring book, Landscape Meditations
, by Elizabeth Mowry
- Moleskines are in color! The Moleskine Van Gogh series!!
- a “bag” series takes shape in my Moleskine sketchbook, and I play a bit with the kids’ oil pastels
- learn to follow a map with X Marks the Spot from the Math Matters series of Readers
- the “ologies” series
- a good kids photography book
- join the CMP FLICKR pool and start sharing your photos
- two quotes from Cornelia Funke, author of Inkspell, Inkheart
, and Dragon Rider
- great photography on January One blog and Ramblings of An Ever-Hungry Mind blog, and check out her photo galleries
- awesome painted “skins” on semi-trucks
- sign-ups for the first CMP artist trading card exchange are closed
- and more
(show length: 1 hr, 3 min)
Featured Podsafe Music:
Jennifer Richman ~ Flowers of Gold [PMN]
Celtic Reboot ~ Aufbruch — Am Fuerer [PMN]
Alyssa Hendrix ~ Sudden Slant of Light [PMN]
Intro Clip: Jim Fidler ~ All I Really Wanted [PMN]
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