Penny Higgins - Storyteller • Artist • Scientist
Combining Science and Joyful Creativity
I love pumpkin beers. Sadly, most commercial pumpkin beers and ales contain cinnamon, to which I am quite allergic. So I decided to make my own, based off of a clone recipe for Brooklyn Brewery’s Post Road Pumpkin Ale in September 2014’s issue of Brew Your Own Magazine.
My recipe:
5 gallon partial-mashContinue reading “Penny’s Pumpkin Ale”
It’s funny how committing to 15 minutes a day of art expands into much more than a mere 15 minutes. But it’s fun.
Today’s work is a little shift away from the fish project I’ve been working on to the elegram project that the Nature Conservancy has been putting on. The idea is to gather 20,000 artistic renditions of elephants in return for $23,000+ in funds to help protect elephants from poaching in Africa.
This is a work in progress. I hope to finish it and submit it tomorrow:Continue reading “Art Every Day – Day 11”
The fish are multiplying. Maybe that’s why they’ve been so successful over geologic time. I spent perhaps a little too long working on this, but I kind of like the results.
National Blog Posting Month – September 2014 – Crunch
Prompt – Tell us about your favourite costume from childhood.Continue reading “I Swear I Saw a Dragon!”
National Blog Posting Month – September 2014 – Crunch
Prompt – A Wordless Wednesday: take and post a picture of the fallen leaves outside.Continue reading “Wordless Wednesday – Fall’s Leaves”
Today, I got my grubby fingers on one of those sets of magnetic words that people use to make creative poetry on their refrigerators. This particular set is from an office products catalog.
We generated some wisdom and left in on the blackboard in the lab. I thought I should share.
We live rurally, so we do a few rural things. One of those things is to have chickens. It’s fabulous to always have fresh eggs to eat!
For grins, my husband decided to incubate a bunch of eggs to see what we’d get. Continue reading “A Chicksplosion!”
The RocNaNo Blog offers Wordless Wednesday writing prompts. This is my response to this week’s challenge, based upon this photo:
Continue reading “Wordless Wednesday Writing Challenge: Bullseye”
Five weeks ago, I tore my finger wide open mostly because I was hot, hangry, and frustrated. Yeah, it was stupid. My finger is doing tons better now, so I don’t feel quite so obligated to keep telling the story.
Penny Higgins - Storyteller • Artist • Scientist