Jamestown

Told you all that the blog would be getting a little bit more love. I've been back in my hometown for a quick visit. Seeing some old Highschool friends, feeling the grass and sand beneath my feet, playing with the dogs and enjoying the enormous change from the Red Brick City of Portland to the greenery of a mild suburbia. I guess I will not have too much of 'culture' shock based on location when I first get to Ireland.

I love where I grew up, and feel luck to have gotten to grow up here, with the ocean and the mild island seclusion, but it being RI everything is only 45 minutes away and up until Highschool I could walk to my friends houses.

So here is a nostalgia post.

This is the house I grew up in.

And theses are the Puppies! Woody (the Greyhound) and Mya

Woody is a dope.

There always lots of birds. I like the mourning
doves the best...mostly because of their red feet.

This is Ling Ling, one of our ducks. he was hand raised and is thus
the only friendly one. He was to busy sticking his bill in
the muck to give me a decent picture.

Globe Allium

I do not this one, but it smelled like honey suckle.

                                                

Iris

The center of a large Lambs Ear weed

Bleeding Heart. Perhaps one of my favorite plants.

 On a more random note, our colleges Illustration department loaned iPads to its majors. And this is my attempt at drawing on one. Its difficult, the touch screen and pen (or my finger) are not a precise as a tablet and tablet pen, so it is a little frustrating. Its a little like compensating for a crooked barrel on a BB Gun.

I gt pulled back in tot he realm of super heroes for a little while after seeing he Avengers and being reminded that the final Batman movie is being released this summer. So here is a little fan Art for your day.

There will be more illustrations to support my lack luster photography soon enough :)  Next Update: Ireland and how much I can't stand air travel.

And now I'm sitting in Logan airport in Boston Massachusetts waiting for my plane which will take off in two hours... There was no one here, on the road, at security or even really in the terminal. It is very strange. I'm nervous and it's making me exhausted to even think about what I will be flying over and the intensive program that awaits me upon landing. <\img> So here a few miscellaneous pictures...Euros (€) look a bit like monopoly money to me!