Pigments

At long last... here are some photos of my first pigments.

The weld started out looking like this:

...and now it looks like this!

and the last two photos are my first madder experiment. (it started out as dried root). i'm still missing the bit of info that would get me the nice rose color... but I did get a nice earthy orange out of it. I couldn't decide which of the two photos came out better... so you get both.

videos from Mexico

we hiked to the top of the mountain to the lighthouse (El Faro) on our second day. these were a few of the butterflies we found at the top.

the atm we used in Mazatlan was awesome. every time you finish a transaction, it plays a little song to celebrate! Unfortunately I recorded it sideways, and I can't figure out how to rotate it. oops. (nope, you won't find Mike's pin number on the video - i started recording after he put it in).

we had dinner at one of the restaurants on the ocean, and watched the surfers at sunset. you can see them in the waves in this video.

i loved how the waves hit the rocks

live music in Plaza Machado after dinner

it started raining after breakfast on our last morning in Mazatlan. it just suddenly started pouring rain - right about the time we wanted to catch a taxi. i tried to get video of it, but i didn't feel like the video was quite capturing it.... which is why there are so many of them.

we had a couple of hours at the airport, which was enough time to watch a plane come in... here are a few videos of it. it isn't the plane we took back to the states (in fact it isn't even the airline we took), but it was fun to watch.