I've been out of school for two months so far, and yet it feels like more than one summer's worth of excitement has taken place!

• There was a month of recuperation in Providence: getting back on a decent sleep schedule and hanging out with the surprising number of people who stayed in town for the summer.


• Then there was the much-anticipated week in Cape Cod with the Scoobies (and now the second generation, the Scrappies), who never fail to come together and feel like a zany and entertaining family despite living so far apart from one another.


• Then I flew home and spent a few days in Dallas, where we were treated to a surprise wedding!


• Today we drive south to spend two days in San Antonio before heading up to Austin for three days. Plans are very free form at this point, but I hope that we'll get to visit the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center as well as wander around Austin's myriad cool neighborhoods. If you have any suggestions for food or frolicking, send them my way!

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A friend of mine was getting rid of this little beauty before she moved to a new apartment, and I offered to give it a new home.

I am currently packing up my car to drive out to Cape Cod tomorrow morning to spend the Fourth of July with the Scoobies, and I couldn't be more excited! I have books and I have cameras to entertain myself while hanging out on the beach, and I am compiling a mix cd to play while driving tomorrow. I hope to have lots of good pictures to post when I get back on Sunday...

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After this image whetted my curiosity, I had to try out this photomerge thing for myself. I happened to have a set of photos I took of Roger Williams Memorial Park for research during one of my studio projects, and so I plugged them in to see what came out. Pretty cool!

Click on the image to see a larger version. This is still one third the size of the original, actually, because it creates a layer for each image that its trying to stitch together. I can only see a couple of really obvious places where the image doesn't match up, but otherwise I think it came out really well!
(This image captures pretty much all there is of the park - its one of the smallest national parks in the country! It marks the spot where Roger Williams made his first settlement, as well as the location of the freshwater spring that supported the community.)

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When I left my apartment last night to head to studio, it was sunny and clear. But by the time I had driven the two miles into downtown, this is what the weather looked like:

It was bizarre how fast it came in, and how violent it all looked even when you could still see clear skies on the edges of downtown. Many a reference was made to the end of Ghostbusters as we all craned our necks to see out the studio windows.

My friend Marcos made this panoramic image with photomerge in cs3:

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Despite being completely mired in schoolwork this past semester, I somehow managed to start two small flats of seeds and keep them alive until they turned into cute little herbs! I think it had something to do with running to Home Depot every two days for supplies for this project, and I just kept walking past the seed starting supplies. Whats a girl to do?

I started basil, dill, and mint. The dill isn't doing so hot, but the basil is rocking out. I'm very lucky to have three huge south-facing windows, which might have something to do with it. I've been giving away seedlings to fellow classmates, but of course keeping the best ones for my kitchen. :)

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