2.76 degre5 loops (5 cedar loops)
cedar lake open swim
76 degrees
The first open swim at cedar lake. It was great. I swam for (almost) an hour. The water was cold, but not too choppy or fishy or full of vegetation. Only 2 or 3 big vines wrapped around my head or shoulder. My hands were cold by the fourth loop and my neck was sore.
10 Things
- big white clouds up above as I swam
- dark purple-ish clouds hovering as we drove away
- the vine that wrapped around my shoulders was scratchy and sharp, the one that wrapped around my head was not
- a new lifeguard — he was very enthusiastic and earnest about giving people information about open swim
- a small bird or a dragonfly zoomed in front of me once as I lifted my head
- successful sighting heading towards hidden beach — after a few years of trying, I think I’ve cracked the code!
- bright pink and yellow buoys
- bright green caps
- bubbles — made as my hand pierced the water
- clear enough to see my hand and my watch and the bottom right near shore but not much else
spider web
I’m stepping back from devoting all of my attention to the holes and lines and spiders and webs (at least I think I am), but I wanted to try out a web over one of my four panel found poems. So far, I’ve created a basic web over the unmarked text. Next, I might figure out how to mark the text and/or create a distorted (NASA drugged-out) web. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m slow in figuring out how to make things, but eventually I get there. Today I learned that for strength purposes, I should create the outer rings of the web first. Also learned that passing the thread over then under when looping makes it tighter. I think I’d like to study how the spider makes the orb web some more for ideas.
