"snowy.owls.dreamnt"

Cold, again, inspiration - Mick's name in it if you look carefully....

'cold.snap"

A week ago Leslie Avon Miller of Textures Shapes and Color was kind enough to post three of my BB images in her new tumblr site. Her new site features many provocative and inspiring work - paintings, quotations and photographs. I provided song lyrics to go with my three images....Leslie is a gifted artist and an inspired communicator.

Leslie cropped my BB images which provides an editorial perspective to my full frame from the hip low resolution work.

The three images she chose can be found here , here and here.

Thank you, Leslie.



"land.scape"

This new quilt features a BB images from the e train. Have a great weekend.

"a.drift"

Found a left.over quilt....fighting off the flu even though I had a flu shot a month ago.

cough.drop any.one?

"world.serious"

During a brief summer between childhood and puberty, many many years ago, I thought to myself, "Someday I will have sex and the San Francisco Giants will win the World Series."

Many summers and falls have gone by and many baseball teams have gone to win the championship, but until last Monday the Giants had not won since 1952. I had heartbreaks in 1971, 1987, 1989, and worst in 2002 when we were 5 outs away and lost it all over the next two games.

When I was small I lived in Cuba and Cubans back then, before Castro, loved the New York Yankees. You can see many references to it in Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea where the fisherman thinks much about Joe DiMaggio.

It is easy to be a Yankee fan.

Go Giants, a team with great pitching and no super star profesionals who made it a real team effort.

"temp.est"

Go San Francisco Giants.

"this.sol.stice"

Today - summer or winter, where do you stand? How are you feeling?

Also my son Alex's birthday. Ten times around the sun. Blow out the candles.

My best.

"what.happened.france"

Mexico - una cerveza, por favor.

"as.hostas.bloom"

Watching the World Cup - Lisa, I was in Penn Station in a deli when NZ scored their first goal and I thought of you. Soccer and two eggs on a roll.

Irene, go Orange. My best.

"lot.us"

Leftover image form my MS Paint days. I am listening to Steve Miller "Number 5," Best song is "Going to the Country."

"Gonna leave the city put my troubles behind
People in the city goin' out of their minds
Goin' to the country just to feel like gold
People in the country really let themselves go

Hey, ho, one thing I know
People in the country got one thing for sure
Hey, ho, one thing I know
Every mother's child really lets himself go

Goin' to the country and leavin' right away
No time to talk I got to make a getaway
Gonna leave the city it's a crime and a shame
People in the city are goin' insane"

I am enjoying the warmer weather and have started a bit of gardening. Soccer season ends in two weeks, just in time for the public pool. Getting used to the iMac.

My best.

"know.ledge"

Up in smoke...I guess.

"tray"

This sample goes back to maybe two winters ago - more than a year - when I was sampling often from Joanne in Japan.

something left.over viewed again.

"may.be"

Soon May. I love May - birds migrate north, lilacs bloom and maple and hosta leaves are all are fresh. Warmth then sundresses.

Sorry to see the daffodil and cherry blooms wain.

"days.past.eden"

"the.thaw"

I am feeling better - a second opinion and lab results confirmed it was whooping cough, but it looks like I am in the third phase of the infection which is slow recuperation, with some ups and down feeling good then worse.

Here it is a bit warmer which has melted some of the snow, but there may be more snow later in the week. I want to see a crocus.

"tap.estry"

"tones"

Thank you for your good wishes.

"a.second.later"

Tested positive for whooping cough. County board of health called me. Need to wear a surgical mask to the doctor's office for second opinion.

Hell of a month. Peace.

Working with large photo files supplied by Debi Cates I see that my computer does not have enough RAM for work I have done fairly easily with smaller files. Very interesting yet frustrating explorations....above is a detail from a much larger draft.

Still out sick and coughing. Getting better, very slowly. Oddest coughing fit of my life. Still waiting for lab results on whooping cough.

My best.

"with.pome.granites"

The image above incorporate some details from photographs graciously provided by Debi Cates. It is not representative of where I see our collaboration going, but as of late I have less energy to create so I combined limbs etc into a work in progress. Thank you, Debi - you are most gracious.

Please also check out her new Creative Round Table blog.

Below is a shot from our front door of the mid week snow storm. The snow fell very wet and clung to all tree limbs, more so than I have ever seen. Our old dogwood was bent over in by the weight and we did lose one small branch from the ordeal. You are looking at a cherry tree in the foreground, a linden tree at the curb and the not yet plowed street.