Another "taken while driving picture"

It's this kind of day.

I take pictures while driving.

(a sunset on a country road in Eastern Iowa)

Yes. It's bad, but some of the best shots I've ever captured are on my Blackberry Pearl while driving. I vow to stop texting and driving. But photos....ehhh. Mostly I take pics of sunsets or people or funny plates, etc. Things that, because of amazing advances in technology and my obsession with my phone, I can capture forever.

(my drive to work in the morning)

new sculpture in dsm.

On one of the only semi-warm days we've seen in January, Jeff and I went downtown to pose for some photos with this incredible sculpture new to DSM.

Read more here.

New projects. and inspiration.

Taking a note from some of blogland's finest, I started work on some mini-projects. New ways to catalogue my photos...in print...for once. I will speak more about my warming up to "scrapbooking" in a later post, but for now, I have project B (the photos of project A turned out dark and gold-toned, unfit for blogging). Last week (as written here) an ice storm blasted the midwest leaving many (still!) without power. We took pics to commemorate the snow day and last night (while watching, shamelessly, Clash of the Choirs) I made this little book. I shot a few pictures of the pages. Currently there are only twothat didn't turn out gold toned. I glued pieces of blue scrap paper back to back to make sturdy pages and then punched holes (I heart the hole puncher) to fit the binder ring and to add "festive" snow to the pages. I like it. A lot.