hummingcrow: one squall voice

Our cat sleeps with his eyes open a lot. It’s always a mystery whether he’ll wake up and react to being messed with or he’ll just lay there in his tranced-out state.

Driving home tonight, from the point of view of my steering wheel.

Just one tiny moment, but it blew my mind. We have some of the best sunsets ever. When I see something so gorgeous, I always feel the sky loves me. I used a teensy snippet of music performed by D-Squared. It’s their cover of Buckeye Jim.

Behind the Scottsdale Community College Performing Arts Center there are five or six towering mulberry trees, old ones. When I leave campus at dusk, there is an absolute riot of birds hanging out in all of these huge trees. Their chattering echoes back ...

I love Maya’s Farm, where I’m a CSA member. This is my share of the food booty this week – I get one of each item. I’m personally thrilled the turnips are back. My favorite way to eat them is raw, dressed with a little vanilla ...

I need to learn to disagree nicely. It would be nice to be able to stop apologizing for hurting feelings. On the other hand, it all happens so fast that I’m having a hard time evaluating what exactly goes wrong. Honestly, I don’t know where ...

Who’s looking? Who’s looking back?

VloMo09 Day 1. I awoke today with a stuffy nose and a cuddly cat. They balance out into the perfect way to usher in November. Still getting to know our adopted stray, Cloud. Facts: he’s loving, and toasty warm. It’s November, which means ...

A couple of years ago, I saw The Broom Game, and I’ve wanted to try it ever since the first viewing. This July 4, I convinced my mom to play it with me. Watch and have a laugh with us. We’re doing this in the park in the center of Clarkdale, ...

I’ve learned how to tell when a watermelon is ripe, and I’m sharing. It’s silly but I was really worried about this when I planted my watermelons back in February. I’ve never grown them before. I had no idea how big this variety ...

A week ago, we finally sent for the storage pod we left sitting in New Jersey after the sale of my husband’s family home following the death of his mother in 2006. On 20 July, it arrived via PodZilla. I recorded the delivery using iPhone Video ...

Ryanne and Verdi get their FreeVlog dolls! from laureng on Vimeo. Jeffrey Taylor and I ambushed Ryanne and Verdi with the dolls that Cheryl and Rupert made for them, as thanks for freevlog.org ~laureng So Ru Howe and I brainstormed an idea for an ...

A digital story by Cheryl Colan and Rachel Woodburn, on the occasion of Linda Hick’s Retirement Celebration, May 16, 2009 My friend Linda is retiring from full-time teaching this year. To help celebrate, my friend Rachel and I made a digital story ...

It’s one in the morning and Mom and I just finished up these signs. I failed at videoblogging week, but I did organize a demonstration for later today. You can read more at A New Way Forward. We’re going to bed now.

I think I’ve averaged 4 hours of sleep per night since Friday night. This won’t end until Saturday night. This is exactly what this week in sleep feels like to me.

The banks get billions of taxpayer bailout money, use it to give themselves huge bonuses, buy more assets, and consolidate their power over us and our government. Meanwhile, what’s in YOUR nest egg? Are you mad yet? What are you doing about ...

This happened two days ago and I’m just getting around to sharing it. Delicious food? You can put a price on it. But delicious food you grew yourself? Priceless.

Just a little tour showing progress so far. Nothing easier than rolling outside with my phone and shooting a little Qik video. I’ve got plants. Most of them I started from seed. Most of them grew. Hurray me! Soundtrack by local birds. Guest ...

First video report from the garden. I forgot to publish it when I shot it. I think I wanted to write something. Now, I don’t remember what date I shot it, or what I wanted to say. Duh.