Orange

Orange
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Blogging Project Runway

Tonight, the designers had to dress themselves as if they were jetsetters. Then after their walked they were flown to Paris. Angela was aufed. She made an outfit that looked like she'd slept in it: and that was before she travelled to Paris. Brown silk linen bermuda shorts w/satin granny flowers on the butt and a blouson top. Yikes! Jeffrey and Michael were top, with Jeffrey winning, although I would have given the nod to Michael, whose white seersucker hip-hop pants and shirt were totally awesome. Jeffrey did a good job with his rock star grunge look, but I would definitely NOT wear it. Laura as usual was elegant and put together. Ulli's silk granny dress travelled well but is not my style: she's a bit of a one note although she can put prints together well. Vincent was simple and didn't embarass himself.

Sublime

two days walking back to back

I'll Never Swim Kern River Again

I'll Never Swim Kern River Again
Originally uploaded by vajra.

How To: Hang Your Artwork and Not Screw It Up


How To: Hang Your Artwork and Not Screw It Up

A number of years ago a friend gave us a great tip that to this day has made picture hanging a simple, pleasurable task. The tip was to always hang your art at 57" on center. "On center" means that the middle of the picture is at 57" (obviously, the hook will be higher).

Interestingly, the 57" standard represents the average human eye-height and is regularly used as a standard in many galleries and museums.

What WE have discovered is that if you stick to this standard, you create a harmony among ALL the pictures in your home, as they will always hang in relationship to every other one. Additionally, we have also found that this helps solve the problem many people have, which is that they hang their pictures too high.


Step By Step:

1. Measure and lightly mark 57" on the wall
2. Measure top of your picture to the middle (or take height and divide by 2)
3. Measure top of your picture to the tightened wire (a small amount)
4. Subtract this last amount to tell you how far above 57" your hook should go
5. Measure up from 57" with this last amount and lightly mark on the wall

Example:

1. Picture is 20" tall
2. Middle is 10" down from top (this should rest at 57")
3. Wire comes to 2" below the top
4. 10" - 2" = 8"
5. Lightly mark 8" above your first mark OR 65" on the wall

Though this may seem complicated to read, it is quite simple when you do it. The thing to always remember is that the CENTER of all your pictures are hanging at the same 57", and you are just figuring out where the hook goes above it.

This 57" also applies to groups of pictures. Think of a group as ONE picture. After you arrange how you want them all to hang (doing this on the floor makes it easier), start with the center picture/pictures and get them at 57" on center. Then surround them with the rest of the group.

Good Picture Hanging Links:
- The Art Of Hanging Art: From Michael's Arts & Crafts Store


(First posted on 2006-01-31 - mgr)
- maxwell

Those Golden Hills

Those Golden Hills
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Cat Friday

Relaxing
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Early Morning

I've already put in 45 minutes walking. Don't know what the evening will bring, so I'm frontloading the exercise. Good on me.

Santa Fe Sky

Santa Fe Sky
Originally uploaded by vajra.

It's all in POV.

Intense

Intense
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Walked an hour yesterday and again today. I didn't want to do it but I did. And now, though I am tired, I'm glad I did. I'm no more tired for having walked than I was before I started. Having someone to walk with really helps: we encourage each other. And it definitely clears the grit out of my head.

Psycho Killer

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Psycho Killer
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I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I
Can't relax
I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire
Don't touch me I'm a real live wire

Psycho Killer
Qu'est Que C'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer
Qu'est Que C'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away

You start a conversation you can't even finish it.
You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything.
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Say something once, why say it again?

Psycho Killer,
Qu'est Que C'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer
Qu'est Que C'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away

Ce que j'ai fais, ce soir la
Ce qu'elle a dit, ce soir la
Realisant mon espoir
Je me lance, vers la gloire ... OK
We are vain and we are blind
I hate people when they're not polite

Psycho Killer,
Qu'est Que C'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer,
Qu'est Que C'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away

oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh....



Sometimes you just have to listen to the Talking Heads...

Lebanon

Jemez Spring
Originally uploaded by vajra.

I have been thinking of the war in Lebanon all this past week. At first, I drew the analogy to the mosquito stinging the elephant. Should the mosquito be surprised if the elephant brings down his foot and squashes the mosquito? Satisfying, perhaps, but an imperfect analogy at best, particularly when one takes time to consider the elephant. The elephant generally ignores the mosquito, at most tossing dust on himself to discourage the mosquito. The destruction of Lebanese infrastructure, the deaths of so many innocent civiilians is more than putting a foot down, as the elephant might do, it's as though the elephant went mad and ran through the plain destroying everything in its path, regardless of whether there were any mosquitos there.

Why should an entire country be reduced to rubble for the actions of a few?

Singularity

P8010037
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Cat Friday

Cat Friday
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Long Division

Long Division
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Number Nine

P8030173
Originally uploaded by vajra.

What Kind Of Pizza Are You?

Veggie Pizza

Upscale and trendy. You're the most likely to go for a gourmet pizza. You have impeccable taste in everything. You truly enjoy the finer things in life.

What's Your Pizza Personality?

All Of Them Blue

Edge

Edge
Originally uploaded by vajra.

And a 1 hour walk with Winnie and Florence.

To Be Happy

To Be Happy
Originally uploaded by vajra.

"I want to be happy like a bird in the sky."

FOR most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than any earthly thinker the conception that laughter is as divine as tears. He called his monks the mountebanks of God. He never forgot to take pleasure in a bird as it flashed past him, or a drop of water as it fell from his finger; he was perhaps the happiest of the sons of men. Yet this man undoubtedly founded his whole polity on the negation of what we think of the most imperious necessities; in his three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience he denied to himself, and those he loved most, property, love, and liberty. Why was it that the most large-hearted and poetic spirits in that age found their most congenial atmosphere in these awful renunciations? Why did he who loved where all men were blind, seek to blind himself where all men loved? Why was he a monk and not a troubadour? We have a suspicion that if these questions were answered we should suddenly find that much of the enigma of this sullen time of ours was answered also.
___G.K. Chesterson

Be Praised, Oh Lord!

Be Praised, Oh Lord!
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Francis of Assisi was a poor little man who astounded and inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally—not in a narrow fundamentalist sense, but by actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully, without limit and without a mite of self-importance.
_____Fr. Leonard Foley, O.F.M.

One of my favorite parables is that of the rich young man. Francis was the antithesis of that poor young man: he gave away all that he had and followed Him. It's so easy to do all that the law commands and yet be unwilling to follow Him.



But it's too hard.
Do you really mean me?
I'm busy right now.
What will people think?
I just bought a new car!



And Jesus looked at the young man and loved him...but the young man went away sad for he was very rich.

Cat Friday

Noi
Originally uploaded by Arietta's.

La Puerta

P8030129
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Another 1 hour walk this afternoon. I've got to get my shoe situation taken care of though. 4 hours this week. Cool!

The Fat Lady Has Sung

War Room - Salon.com

El Portal

El Portal
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Work It Out

Hollyhock
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Another hour walk today. I have a lot of stamina but J. doesn't. Worrisome.

Walking

WHEREIN out heroine walks a full 1 hour and 10 minutes.

A Three Dog Life

"When I was young, the future was where all the good stuff was kept, the party clothes, the pretty china, the family silver, the grown-up jobs. The future was a land of its own, and we couldn't wait to get there."

___Abigail Thomas, A ThreeDog Life: A Memoir

A Journey Of a Thousand Miles

We walked for over an hour in the cemetary. It feels good to commit to walking and then to do it. I also picked up a schedule from Inside Out. I want to become so healthy that what is good for me and what feels good is the same.

Ciento

Ciento
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Cat Friday

It's So Neat To Beat the Heat
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Portal

Portal
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Like a Garden Enclosed

Asiento
Originally uploaded by vajra.

"Heaven"—is what I cannot reach!

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"Heaven"—is what I cannot reach!
The Apple on the Tree—
Provided it do hopeless—hang—
That—"Heaven" is—to Me!

The Color, on the Cruising Cloud—
The interdicted Land—
Behind the Hill—the House behind—
There—Paradise—is found!

Her teasing Purples—Afternoons—
The credulous—decoy—
Enamored—of the Conjuror—
That spurned us—Yesterday!

Emily Dickinson