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  • Well seasoned…

    1. having been through a lot

    2. having flavor

    Those are not unrelated. The seasons have been seasoning hard here at Quebec Qottage. A foot of snow and then 90 degree weather. A temperamental rollercoaster. Que sera sera.

    It’s Spring, so I’ve been invited to participate in several of the graduation shows and portfolio reviews at the various animation & illustration programs around town. That’s always fun, and it makes an old man feel useful. RMCAD put on a nice show. I was really impressed by an animator I’ve met there before named Atlas Fuson, who is really going places. (I’ll have to try to find a link to their stuff…) They had a piece that I thought was surely a senior thesis thing; turns out they’ve still got another semester or two left and plan on making a whole other project. AI just ain’t got nothin’ on the human drive to create.

    AIMS College out in Greeley always has a fresh take and punches well above their weight. They just did a cool thing over the weekend where pros could offer asynchronous remote portfolio reviews. It’s a great idea – even though I was pretty busy I got to take my time with each portfolio whenever I had a spare moment. And it was only the weekend, so it didn’t feel like an endless daunting thing. CU Denver is having their show this week at the Sie Film Center, an old haunt of mine. All the wee babe artists and animators are emerging starry-eyed from their nests. Awww.

    Oh also my friend June is running for city council. I’ve nearly resigned myself to abject cynicism on national politics and instead a while back I decided to pin the hopes of a nation on June’s (then nonexistent) political career. No pressure girlie.

    It would be kind of me to actually link to all of these wonderful people and orgs I’ve mentioned, but I’m sitting on my back porch and I am tired. Also no one reads this or even knows it exists. Nonetheless, I’ll try to improve that.

    The flower buds are opening, the birds are chirping, the squirrels are fighting tooth and claw in the rafters. Springtime. Lifestyle Research is afoot.

  • Rosalía says hi…

  • Planting seeds…

    Over the last few months we’ve been doing our first experiments with Winter Sowing native perennials here at Quebec Qottage. We’re getting some germination. Lots of prairie dropseed, blanketflower, winter fat, penstemon, little blue stem, side oats grama, agastache…

    The process involves sowing seeds outdoors where they endure the harsh winter conditions for which they have evolved. The brutality of their ancestral environment softens the hard shells so that they are better prepared for the warmth of the spring sun. The roots grow stronger, the seedlings better prepared for the place in which they will live. There is much we can learn from plants.

    Updates will ensue as the spring progresses – if the birds and squirrels don’t get to seedlings or the sower. I’ll be potting up some of these into plug trays and others will be transplanted directly into terra firma. If you’d like a seedling or two, just ask. They are meant to be spread around. Also, Barb’s allium bulbs are starting to bloom. Spring is about potential, potency, vitality. Planting seeds is good. It’s okay if we don’t feel energy arising as soon as we’d like, or if things don’t emerge as planned. Late bloomers are often uniquely appreciated and beloved.

    Eventually.

    Go spread some seed.