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......................................................................May 30, 2009..............................Links to Artmail 173 pages: a, b, c,
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Photo by me on March 22, 2009 at 9:42:59 AM................................................................................
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I will get back to the classmates stuff later in June with Artmail 172c...
Lorilyn, drew this for me ten years ago in May...
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More of her art HERE.
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Aloha all..
I have been doing a lot of things that have been keeping me away from getting an Artmail online in May. I have some photos taken at different times of the month around 15B that I will put into this Artmail. It has become more complicated...I download from the card to my desktop which has Vista. Then, when I make time, I reduce all the images to 1500 pixels. My web designer program doesn't work with Vista so I must email those images to myself and download them into my notebook. There's a problem there...the notebook's left cursor doesen't work any more. Rex M., a former student, sent me a Targus wireless mouse to use...Mahalo...It's tricky typing, then reaching for the wireless mouse instead of the cusor button. That's a time-taking process that I didn't have to do before. Now, (on June 4th) I'm going to put some of the photos and upload them to this page as I finish for that session. In the meantime you can try to count the Phantom Dots in the cocofiber painting below:
Lauren's Phantom Dot Pharm.
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It's June 4th. Time flies and I have more and more ways to spend it. I am rereading the books that I built my Pacific island dreams with. The early one I read was given to me by my grandfather when it first came out in 1951 or so...The Far Lands by James Norman Hall (his last book). I have his first, The Faery Lands of the South Seas, ordered through the library. I first reread it when living in Ojai and four weeks ago I read it again.
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Now, I am rereading Today is Forever by Julian Hillas (Dashwood).
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It's great to be able to go to Google Earth and look at the islands and motus that Dashwood wrote about. Before, when first reading about Pacific islands, I searched the libraries in any nearby by city or town for books, maps and photos. I had read those books and more before I first went to Rarotonga in 1985. Strange as it seems, I did not take a camera with me, but I did take an Apple //c portable computer both times... long story.
In 1999 and 2000, I went to the Cook Islands again with Circle Pacific flight packages, but these times with a notebook computer, camera, etc, and I rented an apartment with a phone, got online and added photos to my website from Rarotonga back then...
Now, with the Internet, I can sit in my Polynesian island hale, one-and-a-half blocks from the Pacific, on the Westside of Kaua'i and view the Cook Islands and its motus (small islands) that Dashwood was writing about.
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Rakahanga............................................................................Mauke
Another advantage of the Internet, I could find more information about Dashwood such as in these links...
http://www.the-islomaniac.com/2009/01/islomaniac-profile-julian-dashwood.html
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g309708-d310652/Mauke:Cook-Islands:Julian.Dashwoods.House.html
http://www.the-islomaniac.com/2006/08/cook-islands-remote-island-expedition.html
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Some of the reading that I do is outside in The Nook...
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In the The Nook I can be in the sun or shade when reading. It also has my quick-dry clothes line.
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My mini-jungle view from The Nook. The doves will soon arrive, as usual.
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When I sit in The Nook, I usually take a container of rice because the doves will come around and they are fun to watch their behavior...here they come now...
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They are a cautious bunch.
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An anole visits, too...
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...and it watches the doves' return.
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Hey! Wait for me!
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