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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 -----

Spring Coffee

Well, you can't tell it is spring here in exotic Toledo, Ohio. I'm seriously thankful for having a hot cup of coffee. It is lightly snowing and the wind is howling. I thought March was supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb? Nothing lamblike about this weather.

I can't remember a March being so cold. Where is this global warming I keep hearing about? (no letters on that one, I'm a tree hugger too).

I've been drinking Bello Montana Espresso Blend to keep the chill off. I'm experimenting with painting WITH coffee. On the odd occasion we don't finish a pot quick, fast and in a hurry (and believe me that ain't too often), I've been using the left over coffee as a kind of watercolor. I've been playing with different blends of beans and strengths of coffee. When a couple dry, I'll scan them and post them so you can see what I am talking about. I know painting with foodstuffs is nothing new (heck the first paints were and still are made from basic plant pigments) but coffee has been a good deal of fun to learn to paint with and to be honest, I just can't stand to waste anything!
And let's face it, even coffee this good is still not the greatest reheated or cold. (Except my partner LOVES cold coffee with all sorts of creams and sugars and whipped creams on top - and since he is skinny as a rail, he can get away with it).

Okay off to paint and will write more later when I'm not freezing here!

JoLynn

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::  Posted by: 3am Art  at 6:06 PM
  

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