Wow, is this thing dusty... words still escape me (where is that butterfly net?), so let's start with some pictures from the latest Oregon Country Fair ( Read more... )

I did this painting last August, just hadn't gotten around to scanning and posting it. I was camping on the south McKenzie for a long enough stint that I could spend a few hours doing a real plein aire painting. I had been pondering for a while that one's programmed instinct is to depict water as blue--but the river up there isn't blue at all. ( Read more... )

Here are some nature shots I took last year...

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These were taken over the pond at Lynx Hollow during Egil's. Definitely some of the best shots I've ever gotten with my crappy little camera. There was a very Maxfield Parrish sky going on, and it only lasted a few minutes.

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(hdlao wrote: "Barak's ashes are being scattered the weekend of June 28. drop a few flower petals into the nearest body of water on mid-day Sunday. Red roses were his fav..." So on this perfect summer day I went down to the rose garden by the Willamette River and scattered some. This being for Barak, of course things had to be ornery; the wind was ( Read more... )

1. Peter Gabriel's new world beat collaboration album "Big Blue Ball" has several good tracks; my favorite is "Habibe"--Natacha Atlas' gloriously sensual voice + relentless percussion track = electrifyingly sexy!

2. The smell of jasmine flowers blowing in through the office window is rapturous beyond all description or belief.