BREATHING THAT SIGH OF RELIEF

The last batch of beloved relatives straggled out into the sharp winter sunshine this morning and drove north back to Portland.

Peter finally knocked back the last of the dishes. I swept the floor. Together, we dismantled the extra table, stowed the folding chairs. Swore off giving parties for at least three months if not six.

Peter wanted peace. I wanted—nay, NEEDED—to burn calories… and it was still a beautiful day, so I headed for Mt. Pisgah with my Olympus OMDEM-5 in tow.

Every man, woman, child and their dog was on the trail. The climb is a real huffer—a great aerobic workout that end with a great view out over Eugene, Pleasant Hill and then east to the snow covered volcanos, clear as a paper cutout on the horizon. From the tiniest lichen to the back lit oaks to the snowy peaks, it was a day worth photographing—a day worth being out in, sunny and warm (63F). How was YOUR day?

Christmas at the Jensens 2014http://flic.kr/p/pAqnLy Christmas at the Jensens 2014

DS 106 Road Trip! http://flic.kr/p/pznJ51 DS 106 Road Trip!

Deep Inside Denali National Park http://flic.kr/p/qto9d1 Deep Inside Denali National Park

The Three Witches http://flic.kr/p/qu8LSH The Three Witches

Rainbow Around My Room http://flic.kr/p/pwpPQT Rainbow Around My Room

Stamp for the United Republic of DS 106 http://flic.kr/p/qshUn7 Stamp for the United Republic of DS 106

My Top Ten Movies of All Time

Post Christmas 115th Annual Bird Count
The Daily Create asks about Boxing Day traditions; no, I don’t fox hunt like the Brits or Hunt a Wren like the Irish, but Lane County DOES have its long tradition of the bird count.

Stylin 👀
http://flic.kr/p/qpFjVH

I am DS 106, therefore I create. http://flic.kr/p/priZbE

The Meeting in the Forest http://flic.kr/p/q5HxyH Daily Create was to draw a childhood memory.

Portrait of Peter and His Books http://flic.kr/p/qmtWba Portrait of Peter and His Books

Angels Heard on High #merrymosaic

sandybrownjensen:

Today’s Daily Create gave us a blank stone only and prompted: “On this very old stone somebody did write something very important, a prayer, a memo, a song? What must be written on your stone stele?”

Mine says a slight variation on Rumi: “Say of me I was not bits of husk, or a puddle that freezes overnight or a comb that cracks when you use it, or a pod crushed open on the ground. I was fine powder in a rough clay dish. I always knew what both worlds were worth…”

Today’s Daily Create gave us a blank stone only and prompted: “On this very old stone somebody did write something very important, a prayer, a memo, a song? What must be written on your stone stele?”

Mine says a slight variation on Rumi: “Say of me I was not bits of husk, or a puddle that freezes overnight or a comb that cracks when you use it, or a pod crushed open on the ground. I was fine powder in a rough clay dish. I always knew what both worlds were worth…”

The summer session of DS 106 at Lane Community College comes to an end. I am pretty pleased with it. I reached out to Keren Levine to help me get focused last spring when my mind was blank, and her determination that this should be FUN really led me to commit to the DS 106 website for the first time.

And even though mostly we used the blog aggregator and the Daily Create features, those two were enough to lead to more lessons in setting up a blog, Flickr, Haiku Deck, YouTube, Twitter, Google +, Facebook, Instagram, and iMovie. 

What I learned by having drop-in students is that it would actually be easy to set up next term’s eight week session as both a continuous class and a drop-in classroom.

I asked students today to make a list of five things they might blog about between now and the beginning of school:

1. My upcoming trip to Alaska!

2. interview with Charlie Johnson, host, nationally recognize artist and museum curator

3. Reflecting on my experience at NW School of Film this summer

4. The making of “Mickey’s Dream”

4. Creating a DST about DSTs for Innovation Abstracts publication

Not perfect, but friendship building and an excellent learning summer for me.

Clothing Optional http://flic.kr/p/pTL98U

Memories, Dreams, Reflections
http://flic.kr/p/q9DEj2
Daily Create—a sketchquote for Amy

A String of Banalities as High Art: A Warholian Antimovie

Morning Ride on My Unicorn http://flic.kr/p/pN5XWF Daily Create: Pick a pet and change it!

Today’s Daily Create assignment is:

Y U NO DRAW JIM GROOM?
September 26, 2014
And I say, why draw him when I can app him up?