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In the spirit of iconic “HOPE” poster of President-Elect Obama by graphic artist Shepard Fairey, here’s a clever site where you can instantly upload any photo and create your very own Obamicon. I used a photo from our back yard — but it’s even better with image of spouses, grandbabies and pets. ObamiconMe.com is sponsored by the wonderful illustration and graphic design publication, Paste Magazine.
Congratulations to Joy in Ontario, selected by random.org to be the winner of the Be Yourself print! And thanks to everyone who left a comment — it’s been very inspiring to read other gardeners’ plans for the new year. I will have another giveaway next month.
I saw it yesterday, on a roadside in Florida: a makeshift table, loaded with homegrown plants. How could I resist? No one was home, so I left my payment on the doorstep and drove off with several leafy backseat passengers. They weren’t much for conversation, but they patiently waited in the car while I knocked on doors all afternoon, volunteering to help get out the vote in a battleground state for Barack Obama’s Campaign for Change.
I’m home tonight, working in the studio. I’ll cross the state line again tomorrow, to help out on election day. Last week I voted absentee, and it was my good fortune to be in that three-hour-long line behind a softspoken 89-year-old African American woman. She spent the long wait in happy anticipation of the moment she would fill in that little oval next to Sen. Obama’s name on her ballot.
“I never thought I would see this happen in my lifetime,” she said.
It’s been a long, long campaign and all signs point to long, long lines at polling places. Take a book, take some music, take a beverage — but take the time to vote. Please. It’s never been more important.
The lovely and creative Casa de Charlotte della Luna has provided a list of Election Day Survival Resources. Helpful tips for that elusive creature, the undecided voter, can be found at The Daily Green.
Need some motivation? Want to smile? Watch this.
Now… go vote!
