Meanwhile, please feel free to contact me directly.

Two design constraints I set for this project:

1. Accessibility: a horizontal menu which would expand and flow /behind/ the logotype if text is enlarged, and;

2. SEO: use absolute positioning in the CSS to keep primary content at the top of the source order and place navigation last in the markup.

The leaves turn bright yellow and drop off in autumn; then yellow flowers appear here in late October. Medicinal properties include “astringent, tonic, sedative, valuable in checking internal and external haemorrhage, most efficacious in the treatment of piles, a good pain-killer for the same, useful for bruises and inflammatory swellings, also for diarrhoea, dysentery and mucous discharges,” according to a text from the 1800s. (I wonder if that's why it's called “witch” hazel?)

Native to both North America and East Asia, the latter perhaps justifies this somewhat oriental rendering. The image is a composite of two photos using various Photoshop layer blending modes and filters.

“Witch Hazel” is also “a fictional character made by The Walt Disney Company. She first appears in the Donald Duck cartoon Trick or Treat in 1952 where she helps Huey, Dewey and Louie get candy from Donald.” —Wikipedia.

Mozilla is my primary browser, and I especially like the tabbed browsing feature—also included in other free browsers—which eliminates the clutter of multiple windows but lets me have any number of Web pages open to view with a single click.

• a triptych of the original scans;
• a triptych of closeups;
• and an enlarged, extreme closeup.

Each photograph was converted to line art, which served as a base for the underpainting.

The original image was then posterized, and used as a source for overpainting with Art History brushes from Adobe® Photoshop® 7 One Click Wow!

Feedvalidtor.org helped me track down some problems, especially the documentation on upgrading a weblog's RSS 2.0 feed in Movable Type

To stay on top of various feeds, I'm currently using the free (Windows only) RSSReader.

The Mirror Project was inspiration for this photograph.

dictionary.com defines it as: “A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.” Or when a touch produces the sensation of a taste...

The last photograph is a variation using Photoshop's Auto Levels.

The weblog was ported to Moveable Type. Old comments were purged, but comments on new entries are welcomed.

Thanks to Ben Henick of WaSP for the button.