Colors

Tuesday's a happy day here: Sandy J told me that in my book meme that the book I was obsessing about is The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier. Thank you, Sandy! I will definitely get it! I also have Julia's, Kristin's, and Julia's picks; you know some of theirs will make it to my reading list eventually.

On to Tuesday's post, which was supposed to be last Monday's post, but I put up something else. I put so much effort into this, I might as well post it for posterity. Plus, waste not the pixels, right?

camera: such a useful tool. It makes me think about what it was like before digital, before film, even before glass, back to when landscapes and likenesses were captured over a period of weeks on canvas or paper, as opposed to the blink of an eye. People wrote or painted and those who read or saw their work could imagine what it was like at *that* particular moment. Otherwise, they saved mementoes: leaves and flowers pressed between the pages of a memorable book read during vacation, sand in a bottle, ribbon the same color as a magnificent ocean or spectacular sky.

In beautiful Utah desert miles away from St. George, BF sketched.

He tried to paint when we got home, but the colors--"too saturated", "too bleh", "too dark", "too light"--were elusive.

At Heindselmann's Too in the city, I purchased a single skein of Classic Elite's Fame in #1427 Stormy Sea, a colorway that matches the cyan blue skies, white sands, and grey limestone crags of our surroundings. I've matched it with 4 skeins already in my stash, #1402 Orange.

But, those colors are more than just orange. They're fiery sunsets, desert bushes, scratchy bark, and inquisitive birds. (Sometimes words are better than images, right?)

We're heading back later this month. We'll be bringing the camera, of course, but BF has decided to take along his watercolor pans and paper. I may knit. But then again I may just enjoy the view!

Lastly, rocks for our "climbing crag" collection. I'm more sentimental, looking for patterns or heart-shaped rocks; BF is more "Wow, check this out! This looks like it could've been a crimper on that climb, huh?" Taken only from BLM, and not park, land, for anyone who's curious.

Blogworthy:
◊ More bouldering! Sorry, I'm sounding like a broken record. This is Chris Sharma on Witness the Fitness, an unrated boulder problem. This was taken from Dosage Vol. 3, and not filmed by whoever put this up. This copyright issue: such a win-lose thing.
◊ Sendfest 2006, a bouldering comp. Girls climbing just as hard as the guys, yay.