Author Archives: Virtual Brush Box

Awareness of the outside world. I am late to the party. Ilona Maher is awesome. ~~~ Stepping Stone Farm has been summer camping, so I’ve been having driving lessons lately. Easier to fit in before the camp day starts. The driving is going well. Are the lessons going well *because* I’m not riding? Or becauseContinue reading “Summer Driving”

Awareness of the outside world. Dark Sky: Eiweiler Star Village becomes the eighth International Dark Sky Place in Germany, Reagan, July 29, 2024. Article does not have the cool comparison photo that was posted on Instagram. @darksky_intl, July 29, 2024. We can light the ground without lighting the sky. ~~~ Summer 2024 Intense heat. SeguedContinue reading “Summer So Far”

Awareness of the outside world. The test by Chipmunk and Jung was poetry. That is how eventing dressage should be done. ~~~ The other pile of loot from our Virtual Tevis, 17 blog posts, including today. The above is a screenshot. Links below. Titles After the first few entries, I noticed I had backed intoContinue reading “Post By Post, Virtual Tevis 2024”

Awareness of the outside world. “That idea is that we hold these truths to be self-evident … We’ve never fully lived up to it — to this sacred idea, but we’ve never walked away from it either.” ABCNews: Read the transcript of Biden’s Oval Office address on decision to leave 2024 race, Hutzler, July 25,Continue reading “Fly Spray For Ear Bugs, Horse Management Hack”

Art of the outside world. Git Hub: Joscelyn. Also Font Desk: Jocelyn Font. Designed by Peter Baker. Hat tip to G. ~~~ Violet For My Reference As with U, border in Inkscape. Did not do comparison with GIMP border this time. I think I prefer the beveling of the GIMP border. Or maybe just usedContinue reading “Fractal Alphabet V, Graphic Art”

Hannah bit off a piece of her cone and tossed it to the sparrow. A lot of folks thought of them as flying rats. Wait, that’s pigeons. Given their size that would make the sparrow flying mice. She knew she probably shouldn’t encourage their dependency on humans. When humans and wild animals lived in closeContinue reading “Faces In The Crowd At The Ice Cream Shop, Fiction Exercise”

Awareness of the outside world. EarthSky: July full moon is the Buck Moon on July 20-21, Goss, July 20, 2024. Space.com: Full moon names for 2024 (and how they came to be), Rao, January 18, 2024. Royal Museums Greenwich: Why do we have special names for full moons? ~~~ 20 July 2024Highway 65Shelby County, AlabamaContinue reading “Landing Moon, Photography”