A Mexican Wonderland, Part One: The Neighborhood (2 of 2)

And Old Rust-Bucket. There were many abandoned cars in the neighborhood we were in.


John is wowed by Mexico.


John ponders the local fruit.


Cactus Grafitti that was close to me.


A winning game of Stick-Ball






There were many, many old Volkswagons.

A Mexican Wonderland, Part One: The Neighborhood (1 of 2)

John and I talked with the animals.



I am ruler of the coconuts! Palm trees seem to be everywhere, and are apparently very dangerous, as ripe coconuts will split your skull.


This is pretty well the face I made for 70 per cent of the trip. It was very bright in Mexico.



John found his initials on a wall.



The neighborhood we were in was very low income. This is what many of the roads looked like.


This was the internet place that we went to. Many shops had really old and somewhat unappealing arcade cabinets like the ones you see here. I never saw a single person use one.

Some Xmas Photographs.

Starman

A single-paged comic inspired by David Bowie's "Starman". I've been listening to a lot of Bowie lately.

Afraid of the Dark

A comic I recently made during class. I had trouble with the ink washes. I'm not super fond of this one, but here it is.

Crows vs Gulls

This is a single page comic that I made a while ago. I really shouldn't have worked as large as I did (12 by 15), as it proved very problematic to scan into Photoshop for cleanup. I'm super happy with the end result, and now can't decide whether I would like to continue on with the story.
More pages of different stories will be added soon.

Our Carpets Will Never Be The Same

Mostly Plants

John, BBQer Extraordinaire!
This is our front patio. Recognise the chairs?


My Marigolds! Probably my favourite flowers, as they are pretty and difficult to kill. The Allysum to the far left is from a previous year, the stringier-looking stuff is new. I was surprised to see such a difference in the mature plants. This is a photo from when they were very recently planted. All have filled out quite significantly since. I had deadheaded these rather aggressively, and it paid off.



An Umbrella Tree! Pretty short at the moment, but he'll eventually be very tall. He also lives in the studio.


A Dragon Tree; a tropical I bought for the studio. They eventually get quite tall, but are very slow-growing. It will eventually be dwarfed by the Umbrella Tree.


One of my flower-boxes. Salvia, Sweet Williams, Allysum, and a mystery-climbing-weed. The weed was growing in a different planter box and I still don't know what it is. I'm hoping that it's nature will become more apparent as it matures. It looks like it might be flowering.


My tiny little tomatoes. Now there are about a dozen of various sizes, although all are still green.

Cabin 2009

We didn't take the camera out as much as we should have, but got some good pictures of a few days!

A HUGE spider was living in the sink. We flushed her down once the water-pump was up and running, but felt terribly guilty.


We caught the Canada Day Parade in Sechelt, John's hometown.




John's in a tree! This was on the hike in to the Skookumchuck Rapids. A very long, very beautiful hike.


A sleepy tree. John was telling me that the notches were cut into the trees by the lumberjacks that cleared the area, so that platforms could be erected between trees. But now they look like eyes. Sleepy eyes.

The view from the point over the Skookumchuck Rapids.


Sunset, the last night at the lake.


Eventually Pique and Miles started to get along.

the Lipizzaner Stallions

It was a pretty good show, although admittedly not as awe-inspiring as it was when I was ten.