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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (66365)	12/22/2004 9:28:23 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Each is more lovely than the one before. It must be so amazing there. It is quite amazing here. When I was shooting the photos along the trail behind the barn, I was thinking that, for all of the cold and inconvenience of snow, it can also be incredibly beautiful. It has been unusually cold for about a week though - in fact, we've come very close to breaking some records for this area. We had a couple of nights where it was down around -30 F, which is close to as cold as its been since we came to the farm over 25 years ago. What is the studio for? When I've done wood carvings in the past, I work in there and have the odd studio show -- haven't done that for a few years, but I'm planning to have a show of my photography in there sometime this coming spring or summer. Mainly, it's just a place for me to putz around as it feels more like the cottage where I spent my summers. I built most of the studio by myself in the late 1980s -- Don helped me to pour the footings and get the roof trusses and plywood sheeting up on the roof, and with a bit of the lifting into place of the big windows and corner frames, but I did the walls and general carpentry myself in my spare time when I came home early from work on quiet days. It's a nice space, but unheated, so I can't use it in winter. May do something about that next year if we decide to stay on for another couple of years. However, as you know, I'm longing to move on to live in a more remote area where there are more rivers and lakes up on the Canadian Shield. As for "Christmas", I know of no pagans, agnostics, or atheists who have a problem saying the word. Some write it in shorthand as xmas, but even xmas isn't that "unchristian" as the X is often a familiar icon in Christian art. Btw, I know many non-Christian art historians (myself included) who probably know more about Christian iconography than most avid church-goers, which is rather amusing in a rather ironic sort of way. <g> ~croc