I’m doing a little housekeeping on the ole ‘puter and I came across my “Projects” folder. Funny how I made this folder to hold my “projects” like I was SO organized. Funny how I forgot all about it until I was moving everything around. Just so you know….I have MANY project folders. Of course they’re not all named “Projects” because, well, they won’t let you do that in computer land. Or maybe you could, but you couldn’t put them all in the same little squirrely nut storing place that I keep everything.

So anyway, I came across the “Projects” folder and started going through it. Of course that means that my whack right-sided thinkin’ brain (isn’t it funny how creative people, who from my life experience tend to lean left, think with the right side of their brain) once more becomes obsessed with something that catches my eye. Indeed, my mind wanders back to the fall two years ago when I was watching the now defunct maple tree (see previous blog entry) drop its helicopter seeds all over the sidewalk. Ok….who here is not fascinated by maple seeds? I mean, as a kid it was always fun to throw them up in the air and watch them helicopter down to the ground. Something that kept me entertained for at least a minute or two.

So I see all these files where I took the maple seeds and scanned them with my flatbed scanner. Then I started to think about how the seed actually helicopters down to the ground and what if you could capture that. So the mind wanders and we experiment, and sometimes you get some really cool stuff.

I think I need to clean house more often.