Getting ready for Father's Day on Sunday. We'll have a cookout and there will be four fathers here ( Read more... )

1,2,3. Do bad things still come in threes? If so, I’ll group these three together and be done with it and move on to better things. The horrible crud I had over Christmas is still hanging on. The cough just will not go away and I haven’t gotten my taste buds back completely yet. That is maddening ( Read more... )

The hurricane is over for us, but it has left many reminders so that we'll remember for a long time ( Read more... )

This afternoon I canceled the book club at my house tomorrow. Everyone is very busy with preparation for the hurricane and they all thought that was a good idea. So I said I'll have it here it next month ( Read more... )

Gyotaku is the Japanese art of making fish prints on delicate rice paper. This art form reproduces the exact features and characteristics of actual, individual fish. In Japanese, "gyo" translates to "fish" and "taku" translates to "stone rubbing" which refers to the technique of fish rubbing. Gyotaku began in Japan or China in the early 1800s as a ( Read more... )

I recently took a picture from the bridge going into Longboat Key from the Coquina Beach area. Laurie was driving and there was nobody behind us so she stopped at the highest part of the bridge. If I raised up off my seat and leaned out the window a bit, I had a perfect view of the sandy hook at the southwest end of Greer Island (aka Beer Can ( Read more... )

A wonderful light and soaking rain most of last night and continuing today. It has been drier than our usual dry spring and everything was brown and parched. Today you can almost sit and watch things greening up! Temps are around 80, maybe even a little lower and a sunless sky. I do love bright sunny days, but since I rarely go out in the sun ( Read more... )

I went to the gallery this morning to photograph Pam doing the last Demo of the season and I was really looking forward to this one. Most of the Saturday morning demos (there were 11 in all) were about painting, matting or framing of some sort, but I still learned something new each week, as every artist has different styles and techniques of ( Read more... )

Yesterday Pete and I went on a little shopping spree. We didn’t spend much money at all, but got a few needed items and some flowers ( Read more... )

My new glasses might come in this week! They put a rush on them for Tuesday, so I could have them before we head on up to Georgia next Monday. I ordered ones that have no rims at all on them. I’ve never had ones quite like these before ( Read more... )