On the Road - Challenge 2012

Maybe it's obvious to some that i missed yesterday's blog.  Technology and fatigue combined to deter me from completing it.

We left SF later than planned but not by much.  With the car (over)loaded, we headed across the Bay Bridge on I-580 and then south into the Central Valley on Highway 99.  What a great ride!  Remnants of the extensive agricultural lands that once dominated that area still border the highway.  Fruit orchards in manicured rows.  Cherry trees pruned and groomed to a fare-thee-well festooned in pink flowers.  Livestock in abundance.  The land is flat flat flat looking all the way west and flat flat flat til it meets the foothills to the east.

We ran parallel to the Sierra Nevada Mountains on our eastern side, passing the turnoffs to the fabled parks of Central California:  Stanislaus National Forest, Yosemite, Mammoth Lake, Kings Canyon.  We cruised through Bakersfield to our destination for the day:  Barstow.  On the edge of the Mojave Desert.

What an adventure this is!

And the nature of an adventure is that you just never know.

Inspired by the sweet beauty of the cherry blossoms, i made a pair of earrings, photographed them....and then discovered that the hotel's WiFi wasn't working and that Terry's hotspot wasn't working and thus if there is no internet access then there is no blogging.  OMG!!!  In the midst of my great dismay of not being able to blog - OMG!!! - i had an internal headslap and realized that making earrings every night while on vacation with Terry was undercutting our time together.  So i'm cutting back.  I obviously now won't be making 365 earrings in 365 days - darn it! - but ima gonna keep on making earrings and ima gonna keep on blogging and ima gonna hope you'll be following along.

Here are the earrings from yesterday.  I had a strand of pink glass flowers that, naturally, i've had forever and i combined them first with pink Swarovski crystals and then Terry said i should use red so the second earring has dark red crystals.  And i just let them be.  You decide which color crystal you like best.

Also!!!!  We're on Twitter!!  I'm not sure why i'm so excited about it or what exactly we're going to do with it, but we're @BeadBoutiqueKC so follow us!

Earring count:  33 pairs/35 days