Visual images are part of my creative process.  Unless I get obsessed with the visual images and they get in the way.

Research. Gathering. Hunting.  I’m in a collecting mindspace as I’m trying to reshape/re-image some of my writings.  Unfortunately, I was sent an invitation to Pinterest.  Now I have a place to create bulletin boards of images online – rather than in my multiple file folders crammed with torn out pictures from magazines.  And like a squirrel jamming nuts in my cheeks, I’ve gone over board with my “collections”. 

http://pinterest.com/magicwands/my-love-of-very-large-and-overwrought-hats/