Watering Hole
Hi, welcome to my playground! I've always had fun exploring the West. There is so much to see and do here in this part of the world. When I explore I often like to pick any old road I happen across and find out where it leads. My poor little Saturn has been a few places it probably shouldn't have been over the years, but what adventures!
I like old ghost towns and graveyards best. Thinking of the people who carved an existence out in literally the middle of nowhere with few resources and even fewer people around to help—and then they just disappeared. I'd love to hear their stories. How they lived a good life without cell phones, the internet, a daily time-clock and paycheck, or even without hearing from their families for years at a time.
When I'm not researching new places to visit, I have a few of my own hobbies. My husband and I seem to have been born into the wrong century. Between us we have learned carriage driving, blacksmithing, stained glass, quilting, lithoprinting, sheep raising/sheering, and bee keeping. We have plans to learn how to spin and weave and make our own cheese soon too. I've been bottling and drying fruit and jerky for a few years now. Last year we even attempted pickles. I also have a dream of going to the carousel horse carving school at some point. I guess it's all fun and games when you can set your work down, walk into a temperature controlled house, take a nice hot shower and then throw a pizza pocket in the microwave for dinner instead of what they might have done after a day's chores in the 1850's.
Life isn't all fun and games–I do work sometimes too. I've been running Blackrock Canyon Multimedia for about 6 years now and have enjoyed the design challenges that have been sent my way. I've been pretty lucky to to get some really interesting clients as well. My company focuses mostly on small business start-ups and includes a full range of design services. I'm really hoping to be able to work at it full time soon.
Some more about me? I love chicken cordon bleu, key lime pie, snickerdoodles, dark chocolate, and I just simply can't live without cheese. My all time favorite so far is Baby Bell. I love animals, especially collies, and I think that hands down the most majestic of animals is the Clydesdale. You haven't experienced pure freedom until you see a group of them running across a field. I love the colors of the desert after a rainstorm, and the smell of freshly cut pine.
I find inspiration in the works of Terry Redlin, James Christensen, Greg Olsen, Morgan Weistling, Scott Gustavson, Charles Wysocki, and Dean Morrissey among many others. When I get to read something other than technical manuals I try to stick with the classics. I also love historical fiction and sci fi, hate romance novels, and can't live without the great horror stories of Bram Stokers Dracula, Shelley's Frankenstein, Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera, and anything by Poe. Needless to say I was one off many girls in love with Vincent Price from a very young age. Some of my all time favorite movies include Mr. Holland's Opus, Monster's Inc, the Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Memoirs of a Geisha, the older Party Line, and just about everything by Steven Speiberg, George Lucas, Jim Henson, and Pixar.
Some of my goals for the future include raising my kids to be good, smart, hard working adults, learning to play the guitar and fiddle, traveling to see the pyramids in Egypt, going on an African safari, and spending a week in a bedouin camp in the Sahara Desert. A little closer to home I'd like to make it back to Williamsburg, VA and down to the Dickens Festival in Galveston, TX. I also need to see the Redwood Forest and Glacier National Park soon. I still have at least one more trip to Spain to make, and eventually I'd like to give London another chance. I really didn't have a very good time during my first visit there.
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