Schedule it in?!

How can life be so busy that there is no way to even schedule down time in to be SICK? I don’t like to get sick.No one does, I know. And I’d much rather choose a head cold/chest thing ---even bronchitis, over this gripping nausea.

Thank heavens for ginger ale and crackers!

I honestly can’t say it was the sushi. I also had fresh salad from the salad bar. I had fruit. I had soup. I had broccoli tempura –it could have come from the silverware or the water glass ---

I didn’t eat any RAW sushi –just the cooked kind, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t come in contact with anything raw. There are too many variables.

All I know is that it doesn’t hit me often that I feel sick enough to want to stop doing ---if you are sick to your tummy, sitting at the machine doesn’t appeal. It takes too much concentration to think about threading a needle and doing handwork. All you can do is want to be in bed sleeping it off, trying to find a comfortable spot of respite.

The whole thing brings to mind this video clip from “Ferris Beuhler” LOL! Just change the words to “Let My Bonnie Go!!”

I was going to edit down all the workshop photos and post those this morning --- but I don’t even want to stare at a monitor that long to get them edited down, so how about some pre-sushi scenery?!

This is not the ocean! This is the Chesapeake Bay! And if you look closely you will see cargo ships waiting their turn to go through the channel ---OVER the tunnel that goes UNDER the water carrying cars from one side to the other while ships pass above. The whole thing is fascinating to me. This is part of First Landing State Park

These pics were taken on Tuesday afternoon, the day where the sun shone brightly, but temps were still cold and the wind biting!

From here, we drove to the other edge of the park, where the cypress swamp sat still and dark ---trees dripping with moss, standing ancient and knob-kneed. Is there anything eerier than the reflection of cypress trees in black swamp water? I love how the sun is beginning to set in this picture…

A glance toward the sky showed the tree tops, black, twisted and winter-bare silhouetted against a late afternoon March sky. This picture reminds me of an ink blotch painting –the kind where you drop the ink on the page and blow through the straw to spread it around with your breath.

While it was very windy on the beaches, it was still and motionless in the swamp. Look at the texture of the trees in this photo…and the mirrored reflection in the water ---at first glance you might think this a basically colorless photo, until you really look, really see ---

Anyone know what kind of plant this is? I love odd foliage and funky fruit/berry/seed things. I just thought this looked really interesting.

And just for fun, a man made funny! Virginia Beach has “bad language” warning signs posted down the main strip! I should use this sign for the next mystery along with the “No whining” rule! LOL! Evidently they want to keep it a “Family Safe” zone – and there are things that kids should not have to hear out and about on the streets. I thought this was great, there were these signs all over the place.

It’s supposed to be a lovely day today ---Temps around 70. If I’m feeling up to it, there are some things I’d like to see before leaving town. There are light houses, museums, and other historical attractions calling my name.

It’s a 5 hour drive home – and Jason is heading up today from Columbia, SC to spend some family time this weekend, so I’ll want to be home by dinner time to see him. I won’t have long to dawdle in Virginia Beach, but I want to see more of it than I have so far, and the weather will be cooperating. Now if I can only get the tummy to behave too!

Pics of the workshop to come after I’m back home in my own digs – and maybe a few iphone-o-Grams of the sights on my journey as I go ----