Dude! I so Forgot!

Dude!

Sometimes I get going and forget what I'm doing.  Like, I get so caught up in the pix and scraps that I forget that I'm not limited to the shape they came in.

I mean, this is an underwater park, so cutting my stuff up in bubble-like circles just makes sense.  I just forget that option and am so glad to have a lucent moment once in a while.

Dude!  Wait, what?

Dude! You Don't Need to Choose!

Dude!

Sometimes you have two different ideas.  Is there a law that says you can only do one?  If you have enough pictures and enough scraps, do as many different pages as you want.

Dude, it's your book so you can do what you want!  A day in the Everglades has more natural diversity and memories and photos than should legally be allowed in one day.  So having two completely different pages seems like the right move.

Dude!  I'll take both!

Dude! What are You Doing?

Dude!

Sometimes you want to make sure you have everything thought out with symbols nuance.  Sometimes you just need to arrange thing on a page so that they do nothing more than look nice.

That's all that this page is.  No strategy.  No plan.  Just a that looks good so I'll glue it down kind of approach.  Most of the time this method doesn't work, but sometimes it's all that's needed.

Dude!  Just glue it!

Dude! That's an Order!

Dude!

Visiting the place of surrender for the Civil War showed that star of moving from the chaos of war to the order of civility.  This called for lines.

The stripes are parallel and repetitive.  The pix form a straight, even line.  The label is in the top left corner.  There remaining items are all squared with each other.

A return to order started here, dude!

Dude! That's All I've Got!

Dude!

When there's no flash photography allowed but you still want to remember the place, you won't have much to work with.  Don't let that stop you, dude!

One good photo was all I had but I was still able to capture memories in a pleasing format.

Dude! Give what you've got!

Dude! Back it Up!

Dude!

Sometimes you've just got to let the background do the talking!  The Dude whose lived at Friendship Hill was Secretary of the Treasury.

What should be the background?

Yep, and accounting ledger.  That part of his life was the reason for the site's preservation so having it in the background spoke of the why while the pix show the what.

Dude!  This counts!

Dude! Say What?

Dude!

One of the neatest things about visiting the George Washington Carver site in Missouri is that the place is sprinkled with great quotes from the man.  On stones along the paths, on the walls, just everywhere.  They made the place come alive.

It was an otherwise intentionally simple setting so I used a plain background then put pix or clippings of his quotes in among the scenery.

Dude!  Listen to what the man said!