What Are You Afraid Of

Let's just talk about this for a moment:

This is a creepy RV that has been parked along side our street for a while. Before you get to my house, you walk up the sidewalk and on each side of the sidewalk are trees. There is about a good block worth of sidewalk to get from the nearest housing to my house on Roosevelt Way, if you're walking from Northgate Way. So it's all railing and trees . . . and this single solitary RV. Now generally, RVs have fun feelings attached to them—this one, not so much. It's creepy.

I think the things that add to the creep factor for me are:

• Every time I walk past it, I try to sneak a peek in to see if there are people living in it. I have no proof thus far that says anyone is even in there. Then again, my cowardice precedes me and my peek is weak.
  

• It is there for a few days, then it leaves, then it's back a few days later.
  

• I have watched WAY too many CSI episodes to feel any amount of safety walking by this thing, even in the daylight hours.

• It's covered in a blue tarp and that makes me think creepy people live there for some reason :O

There is a chance that I'm overreacting and there are genuinely sweet people living there, just waiting for me to knock on their RV door and offer cookies as a "Welcome To The Neighborhood," but I'm just toooooo scared to find out. :(

Colors Of The Wind

I recently started following a blog called Color Me Katie. It's a blog that Katie Sokoler maintains. She's a NY Photographer and, I think, one of the most fun and creative people on the planet. Her blog always inspires the creativity that runs amok in my own mind.

Katie recently blogged about a Chalk Walk she did, where she went out in front of her home and traced her footsteps in bright chalk colors. You can read HER post about it HERE.

I decided I would do the same, and add some color to my block as well. I live on a fairly busy main street in the Northgate neighborhood. A LOT of people are constantly walking up and down my street to get to the store, the mall, the ice cream shop, etc. The fact that it was just a wee bit rainy outside just made this art project even more fun! Here are some pictures from my Chalk Walk:

my weapons of choice :D

You know, just so I won't be held liable . . .

Step One

Soooo fun and soooo pretty!

I'm in love with the colorful contrast!

One foot in front of the other . . .

Almost to the end!

Looking back at where I've been

It was SO fun sitting by my window and watching all the people follow the footsteps and laugh and question why the footprints were there!