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Riders on the Storm
September 4, 2008
I’m very excited to start painting again this week. Before two weeks off travelling from Texas to North Carolina I started organizing my FlickR photostream. Now there are about one thousand new photos to sort through, and the ones I’m most excited about are the set of the 1500 year old Angel Oak in South Carolina (now that’s a tree!) – plus a creepy-cool old steel playground beside a gross, moldy, condemned Family Inns Motel, a real treasure! The tree and playground collections are uploaded in FlickR.
There’s also a short photo editorial of our encounters with many of the electric company truck convoys travelling south from Michigan, Indiana, Virginia, and Kansas to restore electricity to 90,000 homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Gustav. Here are a few of those photos from that set, which we were about to post on CNN’s weather.com when I inadvertently killed my husband’s laptop by plugging a cable in the wrong place. An expensive proposition, and I didn’t even get to send them in. I just found out that fortunately all the travel photos were retrieved, but the laptop is dead. Oops!
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September 8th, 2008 at 11:06
Nikki,
Glaa-aad you’re back. Love your Flikr photostream. Unless a photo is just awful I always feel I may have an idea for it. Have a great painting week.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:06
Hey Chris, thanks! Yes, a photo doesn’t need to be perfect technically to be inspiration for a painting – that’s what you mean, right?