It’s been a long time (for me!) since I’ve changed my blog design and I’ve been itching to change it for awhile now. I started designing something while I was away but the wireless connections were usually less than stellar so I ended up just playing with the design aspect without uploading anything to Typepad. This ended up being a good thing as I was able to spend some time reading about design and playing around with different ideas.
This particular design is all about the white or negative space, which is really appealing to me these days. I seem to be leaning towards the spare and uncluttered aesthetic in my life right now. Unfortunately, I don’t have a studio space in my new home, which will continue to cramp my style for awhile but this spring/summer we’ll be building a separate studio outside the house…a smallish one…and I’m soooo looking forward to it.
I have no idea what the plant in the photograph above, is called (the “flower” is about a foot long") but I took the picture while stumbling through the mountainous jungles of Panama in La Amistad International Park, which straddles the border with Costa Rica.
I was on a hike that turned out to be an endurance marathon for this out-of-shape person of eternal optimism! Other than the fact that this is a stunningly beautiful and mostly untouched area, all I can say about my experience in the cloud forests is…Oh my God…I thought I was dying! I stopped long enough to take the picture and then with legs shaking, stumbled to catch up with the group (because we all know what happens to the weakest one in the pack!)
It was actually a great experience for me as I realized how much I’m really physically capable of if push comes to shove. I’m also realizing now that I’m home, that the warmth of Mexico and Panama were really good for mobility and ease of movement. Since returning to the damper and much cooler weather of the west coast, it feels as though my muscles are really struggling to move easily again.
(If I look like a drowned rat who’s hiked straight up one side of a mountain, then straight down the other side only to fall in the river while fording it numerous times…well, that’s because that’s exactly what I’d done by the time this picture was taken. The things we do for fun!). I was going for the pathetic look here.
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