Alison and went for a walk last saturday at the Circle B Reserve. Man there was a lot of nature to take in. They have really made it a nice place to Visit. I was telling alison before they built the nature center and all the park areas there was nothing but a trail from the parking lot. I love the non-action going on in the picture. Almost frozen like, sort of what the Circle B is all about.




I thought this one was appropriate for the times we live in. We have the Leader of Iran announcing that his country has a surprise for the West on February 11, 2010. Great, and my birthday is on 15th! So if anyone knows or has the address for the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, please email me or leave me a message on this blog because I would love to send him a nice big watermelon. Yes, you say why? I say why not! If all our leaders just sat down with some nice cold sweet watermelon(from the South of course) the world would be a lot safer. We even have seedless watermelon now. Which I try not to partake in because I don't think God intended for watermelon to be seedless. I digress; what I’m trying to say is Peace moves like the tides. People come and go with ideas on how we should achieve peace and we tend to forget about the simplest things that bring peace to this world and to our lives.....like watermelon.






Well we are back and I almost forgotten how to blog.  That is beside the point.  I'll try to blog new works as best I can.  Lots of stuff to share with you guys.  So much has been going on since my last post, don't really know where to start.  We will just start with this Polaroid made last year(2009).  Everybody needs to breathe a little beauty, the only problem is we all have chains that weigh us down.  Lets be thankful for the things we do have and the things that bring us together.  And let us break the chains so our beauty can breathe.......



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I love the Shadow on the wall behind the lady.  Sometimes the shadows are far more interesting then what is really going on with works of art. This is the 6th Paper Collage and I have one more to show you guys.  I would love to hear thoughts on the small body of work.  The 7th one will be out next week, so please get your thoughts ready!  We have been so busy the last couple of weeks.  I have been really sick with a wicked cold. Just now getting over it.  We have moved out of 938 1/2 E. Palmetto.  I will miss that place, it was a great little hut.  The Palmetto name will still be used when I make up drinks on the fly.  Palmetto Stinger, Palmetto Bug, Palmetto Blues, and of course the Palmetto martini.  Mind you if you ask me to make you one of these drinks, it would be different each time!  Alison and I have bought a lovely house in the greatest City in Polk County, no need to mention the name, all folks know where I'm talking about.  Lord willing, we will close on or before November 20th.  More words to come.....



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I'll just post all six and once their up maybe you guys can tell me what you think.




I have not been able to get back in the studio for sometime. Hopefully that will end soon. I do have a lot of work in the can. These new post are Paper collages. I have a lot of scrap paper laying around the studio. As always I can't bring myself to throw anything away. I have been working in a 8 1/2 x 6 notebook. These are the first six and many more to come. These were all done between April 2009 and June 2009.



Dad spent 6 years in the Army. Most of his time was spent over in Germany. He was honorable discharge. He kept most of has military pictures, there are some great ones that I will post....



In this Polaroid you will find:Yukio Mishima, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Jackueline Kennedy, Princess Margaret(twice) Marilyn Monroe, Nick Cave, Ike, and Mickey mouse. Your Mission is to find all the people. Don't look to hard because you might get stuck in the lubrication..........








Hello and welcome back to Rapidview. I just got this one done. Its all framed up. The piece is 17x10 1/2". Framed 22x28". An example is below, I used the backs of the polaroid film for the backing. I'll be posting some more Polaroids soon. I would love to hear your thoughts. This is Rapidivew, until next time good day and good night now....