Forting

with friends the fort grows.

And Another

this little streak of finding is getting serious. today when I was lightly pacing the sidewalk in front of my house while talking on the cell phone with my friend daren, I looked down and noticed a pinkish little blob. this is what it was:
I mean dead bird wednesday, snake skin thursday, bird fetus today...what will it be tomorrow, some t-rex fossils? please.

Another new

and now yesterday I found my second ever snakeskin caught in some tall grass. I guess I'm back in a finding place. back but new. like a snake. once when I worked at a camp, I sat next a 6 year old kid I'd never met before on a bus ride, so I asked him what his favorite animal was. he told me, " a SARK!!," "what?", I asked him, "A SARK!!!" he yelled even louder, and then proceeded to launch at me as a "shark" and bite my arm hard. whoa.

New Specimening

I've been taking a little hiatus from my collection...I like to bring home specimens from places for further inspection and drawing discovery, but lately I haven't been so hungry for it.   I think it's important to not always do the things you 'do'  just cause you tend to do them.   avoid the staleness.  That said, I got a bit reinvigorated today when I found a bird fully intact, except that it's head was a eaten away by ants and left as a skull.  amazing.  I'm not really sure what that says about me.   ah well.
this is the second whole bird to enter my life and live in my collection of treasures.  the first was this hummingbird.  amazing.  I can't actually claim the feeling of finding that one...my coworker from the berkeley art museum at the time called me up on a weekend to tell me he found it and that he'd save it and bring it into work for me.  again, not sure what that says about me.   I'm the guy you give cool dead stuff too?  

Grow!

it's getting more good every day.

Keep Only Favorites

there's the lesson. here's a drawing of my favorite little rocks that I made for one of my dearest far away friends.

if I had a twitter, it'd say "feeling fathers."
happy fathers day/longest day.

Fortify

I've sunk into a new proj. Building a secret fort in the woods with friends. What could be better? Let me tell you: nothing. There'll be an occasion to share it in the fall but for now it's a summer's source of positive work energy. Let's just hope I don't keep getting poison oak every day.