The Parlour Obscura

So this blog was originally going to be just dedicated to my art. However, that’s kinda boring. I have a lot of other interests that I want to share. Plus, I have some crazy/cute pets. I’ll still post pics of finished art pieces as well as anything else art related I do. I’m still playing around with the blog design, so don’t be surprised if it changes… a lot. Speaking of finished art, this photo, Backwater’s Buddy, was recently on display at the Southwest Library as part of my The Color of Magic exhibit. It was taken in last July at Backwater’s, a great waterside restaurant on Sand Key Beach (Clearwater Beach. This piece is for sale & looks best as an 11x14, but can be printed smaller. Pricing is based on size.

Yesterday was tech pooptastic. I spent a huge portion of my day fixing and updating my PC in addition to working on my iPhone and iPad. I finally got around to updating my iPhone to the latest IOS & I backed up my photos while I wait for the PC to finish updating to the latest Windows 10. I have a SSD & iTunes forces my phone & iPad backups on the C Drive (Apple needs to fix that ridiculousness), which is only used for my OS & programs. The backups took all the space on my C Drive, so I haven't been able to back up my phone since October. I wanted to just sync some Sue Grafton audio books (more on that later) & my iTunes pooped out & stopped syncing. When I looked up the error, it said that sometimes iTunes stops syncing if the OS isn't fully updated to the latest version. So, I deleted my backups and restarted the computer. I started this post on my iPad while I waited for the computer to finish restarting. It took it's sweet time. BTW thi...