Skinned

Once again, the site is skinned. Actually it has been for a while, but it took until today for me to get the right combination/path in the skin switching URLs. It was not quite as clear cut since this domain is not the primary domain on my database. But anyway. I figured it out. So, if you’d like something a little lighter and a bit less political in flavor, you can find the new skin in the menu column under “A Different View”. It’s called Winter Light. I couldn’t think of a good name, so that’ll do for now. (BTW, if you’re an EE user, Jadae’s coding on this pMachine forum thread is how I skinned this site. It’s pretty easy once you understand how to split apart a template in the Domesticat tutorial tradition.) As always, if you experience any difficulties, please let me know.

A little about the choice of colors. These are colors that I’ve always been drawn to. And I kept looking at the skin, thinking it reminded me of something very old, but I couldn’t quite place it. It dawned on me tonight that these are the colors used on a very old house in the place where I grew up...the home was built in the mid-1700s in the upper Catskill region of New York. The paint used in the house was a milk paint which lends a wonderfully creamy look. The colors aren’t vibrant, but they are, nevertheless, rich and warm. The house, for as long as I can remember, has been a museum of early life in that region. I spent a lot of time there as a youngster. My mother was a docent there as well as an instructor. She taught classes in flax and wool spinning as well as barn and jacquard loom weaving. At the time, I was much more interested in catching grasshoppers and climbing trees. But apparently the house has burrowed deep into my heart. Thought you might like to know.