7/8: trying out

...the macro settings on a new camera.

I often see this kind of bug on flowers, but I didn't realize how detailed and colored it is until I took the picture.

7/7: finding

...a favorite paper-doll set from my youth, based on Disney's Alice in Wonderland.  For instance, I love the pantsuit that gives Alice Cheshire Cat stripes!

7/6: without a plan

I usually map out my days.  Sometimes it doesn't go according to plan, but I at least start with an idea of a possible structure.  Today I just winged it.

7/5: binding

...32 notebooks using upcycled manila folders for covers and paper that had been printed on one side only for pages.  I'll leave them out for free on campus at the start of next semester.

7/4: stowing

...my bookbinding materials in a big new cabinet.  I'm thankful for Chris doing most of the work of putting it together yesterday (I helped), so today it was ready to be filled.  It feels good to have all that stuff out of boxes and in one place.

7/3: listening

...to Molly Harper's Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues and enjoying how it turns on the head some mythological traditions about nymphs.

7/2: ambient sounds of two kinds

Brian Eno's Music for Airports.

And then the frogs and cicadas making themselves known in a great clamor as I sat on the porch and talked with a friend on the phone.

7/1: receiving

...a great piece of mail today:  someone sent me their favorite double-simile from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter.