Zuma beach…..In the summer this beach has millions of visitors, but it’s the winter that I love. I love it when the wind leaves trails in the sand, when there are 2 surfers, when the solitude is palpable. I love the hundreds of seagulls that go squaking from above, and the lonely life guard towers. It is beautiful here and I am so lucky to call Zuma my front yard.
Final Edit……
14 x 17 on paper acrylic, ink, and pen.
Organika # 44
This is one of my OCD- Obsessive Compulsive Drawings.
My daughter said it looks like barf.
I prefer to think of it as more undersea or garden graffitti.
Charlie is 4 yrs. old. This is the first time she has written her name. I’m so proud of her. I especially love the little ghost.
I cucumber, 3 stalks of celery, 1 apple, 3 small oranges, it takes all of that to turn into this one big yummy glass of goodness! I am in love with my juicer! I got a Jack La Lanne one at Costco…a great deal at under $100. I had NO idea that juicers took so much fruit or greens. Look at the amount that’s on the plate to make that one big glass, it is amazing how much you have to put into that machine….wow it is pretty expensive, so I have to go for the week to the farmers markets where you can get some deals. I absolutely depend on my garden also, am waiting for the celery now any day I will be able to harvest that.
So this is the Santa Monica Pier. Zola, my husbands grandmother was the Fortune Teller (gypsy) here for many years. Too bad she couldn’t tell us to hold onto that piece of property, woops city block she owned right across from the pier. It must be somewheres in the region of hmmmmm 500 million right about now. Oh well…..
The Santa Monica Pier is one of the last remaining wood piers on the Calif. coast. I remember going there as a kid, playing carnival games, hot dog in hand watching the people fish off of the pier, when I was very little. Then, one summer I took junior lifeguards. I will never forget that for our final test we had to jump off the end of the pier with a life saver floating device and pretend to save someone. I was only like 12 yrs. old and shaking in my boots! We get down to the end of the pier where the water is at it’s deepest and I’m watching very carefully, not saying a word, as all of the kids go before me diving and saving people. I’m gaining strength from each of their success, I think I just might just be able to do this…..THEN, I’m in line, next girl up…… The tension is palpable…… I watch intently as the chubby girl in front of my jumps off AND SUDDENLY her rope line gets snagged on a pier piling….SHE IS SCREAMING! YIKES OH MY GOD! THIS is HORRENDOUS! Her shrieks of absolute terror fill the air!
Everyone dashes over, leaning over the wood railing, to see her swinging back and forth, under the pier, about 10 feet above the ocean water dangling from the end of the rope. The rope is now cutting into her skin, she’s bleeding as she dangles and moves she also screams….Oh My Gosh! This is terrible stuff happening right before my eyes. This is happening, my fears coming true.
She is finally pulled up and bloody and crying, this is not a great Saturday for me or her. BUT mind you we had to do this and accomplish this task to get our final Junior Life Guard badges, certificates and become REAL LifeGuards! The teacher turns to me…..”OK Deb you’re up” Do I throw up, poop myself, cry and run screaming down the pier to safety….or what….
No….I
DIVE!
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This is my mouse path for about 2 hours. The lines are made from when I move my mouse. The circles are hesitations. The larger the circle I probably got up to go to the fridge, walk the dog, etc. It’s really amazing isn’t it. It was plain black and white and then I attacked it with photoshop and some color! It reminds me of a print from the 60′s.
Courtesy JumpFromPaperExpect to turn a lot of heads toting a JumpFromPaper bag down Madison Avenue. The brainchild of Taipei-based design duo, Chay Su and Rika Lin, this new accessories line fools the eye with a reverse spin on trompe-l’oeil: 3-D objects parading as a two-dimensional drawings.
With exaggerated outlines and bright blocks of color, they look they’ve been pulled straight from the comic pages — like something Little Orphan Annie would oogle in a store window. Despite their flattened appearance, they’re deceptively spacious, with enough room to hold all your accessories, even your laptop. Current styles mimic the basic bowling bag, satchel, hobo, and briefcase, but we’d like to see the designers tackle some more iconic models — maybe an Hermès Birkin, a Chanel 2.55, or even a Fendi Baguette.
