• 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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