Art imitates life

As regular readers of this blog know, Landscape as Muse is one of the few television programs I go out of my way to watch, even to the point of getting up rather early some mornings.

The episode that is being run on CBC Bold today features Matthew Wheeler, taking photographs of Robson Valley. What makes this so interesting -- apart from the fact that Mount Robson is the highest point in the Canadian Rockies and rarely cloud-free -- is that Matthew makes his own lenses by freezing water and shaping it with his hands.

Well, I don't have a DSLR, but we do have a leaky eavestrough, and so with the lovely icicle that formed yesterday, I decided to feature one of my pine cones in a small homage and test.

Things have been busy here: I've had my nose to the twin grindstones of the bench and the computer, working steadily away on my Guild of Bookworkers' Marking Time entry.

No, I haven't talked about it much, for a couple of reasons: mostly, that's because it's yet another book about death and I need to keep my focus on what I'm doing and not let my emotions get in the way. So I work on it in spurts -- today being very successful -- and then play with other, happier, projects in between.