Slice of Shoofly Pie

Slice of Shoofly Pie 2, originally uploaded by jwiggs.

Well helllooooo there! It has been ages since my last post. I've been painting up a storm and of course cooking up a storm. Doing some snowshoeing in the beautiful forest. Although, it would be right swell if I could actually take some pictures while I'm out there; however, the camera does not like the cold temps. It will operate, but the change in temperature from inside to out and back again is not ideal for digital cameras, so I'm waiting out the cold. My painting is finally progressing, although not in the direction I had thought it would go. A friend helped me to see that if I wanted to let the work evolve, I should just let it happen. Funny, I hadn't realized I was fighting with myself and not letting myself evolve, but really that is exactly what it boiled down to. So I have let go and I am having a ball and using big brushes and making sweeping movements with my arms; thus, I am also building arm muscles. Wahoo! I'll show you what I've been working on real soon.

In terms of taking photos, last night I took a shot of this slice of Shoofly Pie. This camera was new to me when I went to Europe and I had not read the manual. However, when I uploaded many of the Europe photos to flickr, I noticed on quite a few of them it said they were taken in normal mode. Normal mode hmmppphhh, whatever that is I thought!???! I would say, the first 1/3 of our trip, before I started using scenery mode and sports mode, I was setting the camera to this one camera icon. Only to realize last night when I took this Shoofly Pie photo in manual mode... normal means manual!!! Ohhhhhh Myyyyyyyyy Gawwwdddddd! Well isn't that just tooooo funny!

BTW, this Shoofly Pie is just totally to die for!!!!! Now I'm off to paint on this beautiful Sunday.