Rob's Celebrity Morph

I didn't have time to do Rob the other day, so I just did. I don't think they really had anyone that really looks like him, this is the best they could do....


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My Celebrity Morph

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So, I haven't blogged in a long time, but when I saw the celebrity morphs on Jeremy and Darcy's page, I had to spend my precious time doing the same thing. I don't even know who this person is.

Walking in Mission Park

I went walking in the Mission Park a few times this week, which I hadn't done in a while...Yesterday I took my camera:

The butterflies are out a lot right now.

I practically threw my cell phone in the water in my enthusiasm to take a picture of this snapping turtle.

Dang

So, I was going to compose a post with pictures and some commentary about Julie's party last weekend, but unfortunately after the storm that came through Thursday evening, our desktop computer will not boot. Of course, ALL of my picture files are on our desktop... I have thought to myself before, I should get one of those large backup drives and put all my pictures on it, but have I done this...no. A good number of my pictures do exist on the servers of shutterfly and imagekind, however, this does my no good when I want to put them in my blog, and there were several that I had not gotten around to uploading yet.

Hopefully the whole computer is not completely fried and we will be able to get the information off of the hard drives...if not, well then that's just not fun at all.

Anyway, it doesn't seem like any good to me to talk about the party without the pictures, the whole thing that was spuring me to do it was that I was viewing the pictures on shutterfly and wanted to make comments on them, which you can actually do a little bit on shutterfly, but I think it works better in blog form.

Oh wait, after seeing Darcy's new post I just realized I can save the pictures when viewing them on shutterfly. I'M ON IT!

Giant Tree Painting

After about 3 months of work, it is done, my giant tree painting....

OK, so I don't know that it looks all that impressive in the picture, I stood beside it to try to convey the scale, it's 48 x 60, which I'm not sure warrants the title "giant" compared with all things that have ever been painted, but it's the biggest thing I've ever painted. I think I started working on it in May, so it took almost 3 months to complete and it is now proudly displayed on the wall behind our table, so you can come over and marvel at it's glory.

Speaking of art and stuff, I paid for the super platinum status on imagekind.com so that I could put all (well not all, but a good number of) my pictures on there with the idea that maybe random people who peruse the internet for art might want to buy prints... it could happen, although it hasn't yet. Random people have looked at them though, and if you would also care to have a look go to http://annaeisenberg.imagekind.com/

I don't have the big tree on there yet because I tried taking good pictures of it hanging on the wall, but the light isn't good enough to get the details, so I'm going to have to set it up outside somehow, which is going to be more of a problem than I had with my other paintings, seeing how it's so big. I also need a title, I don't think I want to call it "big tree"

Vacation

We went vacationing last week to Apalachicola and Atlanta...

Day 1: Apalachicola - we arrived, found that google maps gave me bad directions (not super bad, got me to the right street, just too far down...it was pretty easy to figure out) to the place we were staying. We stayed in the luxury loft at the House of Tartts, which I recommend, although you do have to lug your bags up a spiral staircase. Ate lunch, walked around downtown. Found an art gallery with nice paintings where a man said that we should go to dead lake and gave us directions. Turns out dead lake was 1 hour away (I was expecting maybe 1/2 hour) and it took us a while to actually find it once we were in the area. It was pretty cool though. Lots of cypress tree stumps. It makes you wonder what happened to them all. Here's one live cypress:

Day 2: St George Island- We went to the beach, where I was very proud of Rob for getting in the water and trying to enjoy it (he's not very fond of the swimming). Then we went across the street to the other side of the island and walked along a little trail and looked out on the side that was marshy.

Day 3: Return to Tally - not very much intersting

Day 4: Drive to Atlanta - again, not very much interesting

Day 5: Chillaxing at Rob's sitster's - not very intersing either

Day 6: Greek cooking class and Georgia Aquarium. In the cooking class we made: 2 different lamb chops, Greek salad, fried zucchini, Tzaziki sauce, cheese pastries, fried doughballs. All very tasty. Apparently our GA Aquarium time overlapped that of the Mitchells and Bennages. We didn't see them, but ran into a group from Northwoods...here's some pics from there

I don't know what this is, but it was pretty cool

This grouper was staring at us

Crazy Japanese crab that can get as big as a car

The Beluga whale was my friend - he's smiling at me

Pretty Jellyfish

Awww...we love each other!

Trip to Brandon

So Rob and I went down to Brandon/Tampa for about five days last week. He had a meeting in Tampa on Wednesday and his cousin Sandy was getting married on Saturday, so we just decided to hang out. So we drove down on Wednesday morning and Rob dropped me off at his parents and went to his meeting. He had another meeting (with a different person) on Thursday, so I again got to hang around his parents house all day. This wasnt' too bad, as I brought The Three Musketeers with me, which is a really long book: 738 pages (I am now on page 259), but is still shorter than the 5th Harry Potter book (the one we are reading now) which is 870 pages.

The Three Musketeers and Harry Potter compared.

The Three Musketeers does look bigger, but it's because it's a paperback and has now been stretched out a little. My point: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is really dang long, and I somehow feel like it has less of a right to be so than The Three Musketeers. (Side note added later: Reading the introduction to either Three Musketeers or The Count of Monte Cristo, I found out that the reason books of this era were so long was because they were originally published by chapter in newspapers, which paid the authors by the word or by the line...so authors tried to stretch the stories out a bit. Even so, I still found The Three Musketeers more engrossing than Order of the Phoenix. And, by the way, I also liked it more than The Count of Monte Cristo, even though people seem to think that one is Dumas' best. Maybe it was because I read it after watching the anime version, but I don't know...I read all the Lord of the Rings books after seeing the movies...)

Friday Rob and I went to the Lowry Park Zoo, which is a very good zoo. I don't know if it had to do with the fact that there was a tropical storm approaching the area, but the animals were more active than I have ever seen zoo animals.

The Siamangs were "singing" and swinging.

The chimps were hooting back from accross the street.

The tiger was pacing and looking in the window (which you can't see but is right beside it.) Apparently wondering how it could possibly get the to children inside staring at it.

The only animal that was chilled out was the sloth bear.

Then Saturday we went to the wedding. I didn't take pictures there because apparently I only take pictures of jungle beasts.

Such as Rob - He's like a cheetah!

The wedding was nice, but involved too much sitting around while we waited for the bridal party to arrive so we could eat. Man, I let everyone eat right away at my wedding! Then it took to long to get to the dancing. Come on people - marriage, food, dance, one right after the other. Does it seem to anyone else like too many things happen at weddings just so that they can have pictures of said things. Like the whole cake cutting thing, who cares, just eat the cake. Cake is for eating. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it was just that the DJ had to annouce and count down (3, 2, 1...) for both times they made the slice down the cake and for the moment of them feeding it to each other and for the kiss afterward.