I now have a red stripe (well, it's sort of pinkish brown) right above the top of my jeans. Normally, this area is not available for the sun to burn, but today I was toiling diligently in the garden (so diligently!) and my shirt rode up. And lo, my lower back/hip area was exposed causing the aforementioned stupidest stripe of sunburn which will turn into the stupidest stripe of tan in a couple of days. (I should say my stupidest sunburn/tan THIS YEAR since it's nowhere near as stupid as the time I ended up with white hand prints on the backs of my thighs after a Tragic Sunscreen Incident. I couldn't wear shorts that whole summer.)
I'm not complaining about the sun, though!
And now to give this post some content beyond my inability to properly block the sun... How great is this embroidery? I saw it this morning on whipup. The artist's name is Ethel Wright Mohamed, and she stitched scenes from her life on the Mississippi river delta. This one is called "A Dream." I so love the faces on the trees and the dancing bees! (and even the alligators, despite my recurring post-florida alligator dreams which aren't really nightmares, but they're not really fun either.) Click on the whipup link or the picture to see a larger version of the embroidery. I keep thinking I'm going to design this enormous halloween embroidery, but so far it's purely theoretical. The wiser course of action would be to just get stitching. (less thinking, more doing -- yet another thing I could have tattooed on my forehead.)
I'm not complaining about the sun, though!
And now to give this post some content beyond my inability to properly block the sun... How great is this embroidery? I saw it this morning on whipup. The artist's name is Ethel Wright Mohamed, and she stitched scenes from her life on the Mississippi river delta. This one is called "A Dream." I so love the faces on the trees and the dancing bees! (and even the alligators, despite my recurring post-florida alligator dreams which aren't really nightmares, but they're not really fun either.) Click on the whipup link or the picture to see a larger version of the embroidery. I keep thinking I'm going to design this enormous halloween embroidery, but so far it's purely theoretical. The wiser course of action would be to just get stitching. (less thinking, more doing -- yet another thing I could have tattooed on my forehead.)
