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Brenda Griffith

Glass artist, author, spinner, weaver, wife, mother, gardener, novice beekeeper, intrepid creative explorer.
#1 365/365
2 streak
#142
Day 142
Hundreds of Tiny Iridescent Green Beetles in my Garden
The plants they are munching on look the worse for wear, but these little beetles in my flower...
#144
Day 144
Guillermo del Teapot
My spouse and child have christened the teapot I bought at the Dirt Dauber Festival last weekend in honor of the the director of...
#149
Day 149
Tonight's Burger (and Corn)
Tried something new tonight: a burger with duck foie gras paté, strawberries, avocado and bacon on it (and American cheese...
#160
Day 160
Tornado Light
This photo was not edited at all--specifically, it wasn't edited for color. If you have ever lived for any amount of time in the midwest...
#188
Day 188
At the National Bison Range
It was so hard to pick a photo today! We drove through the National Bison Range--one of my favorite annual excursions--and...
#191
Day 191
I Need To Weed My Garden
I had every intention of having my garden in Montana weeded by now, but instead it languishes in the hot summer sun. #outdoor...
#206
Day 206
And Now Let's Go Sideways!
Yes, bees have incredible spatial sense and are great architects and engineers, but that doesn't mean that some times they...
#212
Day 212
Festooning
This is one of the frames from my Top Bar hive. In this kind of hive, the bees build their comb off of a wooden bar on the top with no othe...
#217
Day 217
Anole On the Wall
#morning #outdoors #nature #saturday #color #tree #wall #texture #rock #pattern #desktop #stone #climb #rough #geology #flora #augus...
#223
Day 223
Snake In the Pond
I'm not sure he can get out of the pond. I have seen him there in just about the same spot for the past couple of days. He seems to...
#225
Day 225
The Glass Kite After Fusing
Yesterday I posted a picture of a glass piece I made before it went into the kiln. Here is the same piece today after it c...
#227
Day 227
Water Lily and Frog
Spent part of my afternoon frog watching in the pond in our new garden. The lilies are all doing really well, and the frogs are sp...
#234
Day 234
My Sweet Boy
Gallifrey, the 3-1/2 year-old wolfhound, hanging with the family tonight. #portrait #evening #dog #tuesday #animal #studio #baby #hair #f...
#240
Day 240
My Foot After 15 Bee Stings
I never thought I'd post a picture of my foot to Tookapic, but since this is my visual journal for the day it's only right...
#262
Day 262
The Lady Is On the Hunt
This is the second, large, female preying mantis I have seen in two days. Both of them looked ready to bite some poor male's h...
#266
Day 266
Harry Dean Stanton RIP
Harry Dean Stanton was an amazing character actor and his performance in Repo Man is one of the things that makes it a classic....
#316
Day 316
Elliott Spinning a Web
Thankfully Elliott is outside the window spinning the web which keeps my neighbor, in whose kitchen window Elliott spins his (h...
#318
Day 318
Dinner!
The perfect dinner tonight as Dave and I sat down for a rematch of Five Tribes. Tonight was my night: I didn't beat him by much, but I did bea...
#3
Day 3
Pavlova In Front of the Window
I love this shot as it shows the Christmas lights from across the room, me taking the picture, and the room behind me d...
#4
Day 4
Spinning Wool Into Yarn
Hand-spinning hand-dyed Corriedale wool roving into fingering weight yarn. #evening #wednesday #january #shoe
#5
Day 5
Live Oak by Manuel's
#thursday #afternoon #people #january
#6
Day 6
Sunset Over Scully
When we moved into our house this year we found "Scully" nestled in amongst the prickly pear cactus and live oaks alongside the dri...
#7
Day 7
Good Fire For Cold Winter Night
It's difficult to see the size of this fireplace, but the hearth is about five feet wide and three feet deep inside. W...
#8
Day 8
Ice on the Pond
While we didn't get snow in Austin with the recent weather front, it has been cold enough for the water from the fountain in the pond...