out of atuan

welcome, traveler

you've come across my internet burrow - pull up some moist earth and make yourself at home. this little webspace is a collection of things i think are neat, cobbled together with amateur css and love. i hope you enjoy your stay. <3

latest transmissions

end of year housekeeping - 7 dec

now that the mini homepage redesign is done, there's a only few things left to finish up before the new year.

• finishing touches on the shadow ranch shrine
• sitemap overhaul
• set up next year's daylog

longer-term goals:

• improve the inspiration page
• implement the design i have in mind for the point and click page
• collages (might try to learn iframes for this)
• grimoire revamp (currently working on the words if not the code)

my entire focus has narrowed down to the week and a half vacation i get over christmas - it was the highlight of last winter and i expect it to be the highlight of this one too. the workplace christmas party is also coming up and i'm so excited to get gin drunk and tell everyone how much i love them.

about

• thirty something
• mixed media artist
• line cook
• mom friend
• autism + cptsd
• stoner
• former deviantart kid

interests

• biology
• scifi and fantasy
• tarot and divination
• the public domain
• prehistoric cultures
• point n click games
• trash art
• papercraft

influences

(more sites i love on the links page~)

microecology

plants doing their thing in my side yard include a dewberry vine, a small mulberry tree, a pink crepe myrtle, an established but inoffensive tangle of poison ivy climbing one of the oaks behind the house, hurricane lilies in the summer, a late-blooming stand of goldenrod, tiny white asters, and wild periwinkle.

around my front door live several spiders, all of whom are named Veronica. (they are differentiated by where on/near the door they live, with the lowest one being Basement Veronica and the highest being Penthouse Veronica, with Neighbor Veronica having moved in on the other side of the porch light.) the little gastropods that munch the biofilm on the outer windows and siding leave trails of tiny radulae-imprints - at least three different types. high summer brings out the fireflies that hatch from the leaf litter (we never rake).

one or two birds take shelter in the little cozy pockets where the porch posts connect to the eaves - lately it's been a pair of wrens, but house sparrows and cardinals hang out sometimes too. my favorite winter sound is the white-throated sparrows singing as the sun goes down. other singers include chickadees, titmice, catbirds, many mockingbirds, bluejays, towhees, and juncos. several generations of barred owl have kept watch over the nearby pines and water oaks.

many opossums (my beloved) and raccoons have trundled under the house or through the back porch over the years, plus a single armadillo and a bunny.