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Greensboro, Georgia, in March, 2007
A.M. Otwell, 2007

More about Greensboro here.

Hi, everyone! Thanks for stopping by. Feel free to have a look around! Ree is hands-down the best storyteller on the web, so I’m not going to try to compete with the story of my roller coaster day. Let’s just say it ended on a less sad note.

(If you’re not a PW reader, you should be! Start here.)

Thanks, Ree!

We first became aware of Mamacat when she had kittens under our deck a little over a year and a half ago. The vet found homes for three kittens, and we kept two and started taking care of Mamacat, but although she was intermittently quite affectionate, she never quite trusted us after her trip to the vet to get neutered.

She had been dividing her time between our house and a neighbor’s for quite some time, so we weren’t worried when we didn’t see her for a while. Today, the neighbor came by to tell us he buried her this morning. We’re not quite sure what happened. Goodbye, Mamacat.

Here.

I was starting to think it would never snow in Greensboro. Since we’ve been here, Greensboro has generally been at least a degree or two warmer than metro Atlanta, so even when there has been winter weather there, there hasn’t been any here.

I took this picture of Percy in the back yard right after it started snowing. It got too dark for pictures, but we got a light dusting that turned everything white. It’ll likely be gone by morning.

(By the way, those lights in the background are from our local library. Others might disagree, but I think we’ve got one of the best locations in town!)

I ran an upgrade of Wordpress and lost my colors and such. I have it backed up somewhere, just have to find it!

I’ll try to fix it (or maybe improve on it) soon!

January 14 Update: I’m working on it now.

January 14 Second Update: It still doesn’t look quite right to me, but I’ve restored everything I had backed up. Perhaps I’ll tweak the appearance again soon.

The knife was old, the butter was frozen, but who would have guessed the result? (And the day the photo was taken wasn’t too bad, just surprising.)

Treble
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 12 inches
A.M. Otwell, 2008
(I took the picture before I signed it, but that’s the only change.)

Acrylic on Paper
4 x 6 inches
A.M. Otwell, 2007

Acrylic on Canvas
12 x 12 inches
A.M. Otwell, 2007
I had trouble getting a good photo of this one. Background is a deep forest green.