Fresno, California. I never did want to live here. Brunt of jokes it is. With good reason. It has its virtues, however. I point those out. Sometimes. All times, I tell the truth. I am not promoting the place. Walking. Walking, walking, walking. I’m walking so much because I’m training for extended trips in the … Continue reading “My Ugly Town”
I have been neglecting this blog. I don’t know why. I’m paying good money for it. But I think that’s about to change, and I thought I should warn you. All two of you who will see this post! Haha. Oh, yeah. I did change the settings about comments. Kept getting spammers trying to poop … Continue reading “Neglect, Sigh”
I’m into making stuff, fixing stuff, practicing many arts, and, honestly, flipping from thing to thing in a way that may seem random. I figure that there will always be many, many people who are better at their specialties than I, but I never accepted the limit of, “Doing one thing well OR many things … Continue reading “A Power Pack For My Stealth Camping Van”
I sure have not been posting anything in a long time. Social media advice always includes posting regularly. I’ve never been one to follow advice though. But, anyway, I felt I hit a dead end, artwise. I was missing something. So, I rested by doing other kinds of work, and that finally resulted in some … Continue reading “My First Video: About A Cat, Of Course”
This is a short post today — as opposed to other days — about the latest flower study of my hummingbird garden. It seems the “featured image” by WordPress design likes only one geometry. Most annoying! “Continue reading” if you will to see this portrait mode piece. I shall debug that. But not today. I … Continue reading “Red Light Shadows”
Impressionism is a way of seeing what is there to be seen, not what you think is there. Lines around things, for example, are imaginary. They do not really exist except in art. I have heard that kind of linear representation called, “the felt object.” As the word is ordinarily used — meaning “realistic” — … Continue reading “Once An Impressionist, Always An Impressionist”
It was around 2002 that I decided to work exclusively in black and white. I did that until about February of this year. Twenty years of shades of gray alone. My time in the wilderness with only carbon for pigment. My preferred medium was ink and brush. I will get around to posting some of … Continue reading “Gray’s End”
Here is my latest piece of a juvenile sunflower made especially for the header. I have a whole series of photos I took of every stage of this flower’s growth cycle. She happened to grow accidentally from a seed dropped by last year’s crop. I did many paintings of those, and I will eventually post … Continue reading “Young Sunflower”
Right now, comment settings — and I have to say, “right now” because the settings may change at some future date — are such that a person must have a previously approved comment to escape the moderation queue. That means anyone who has commented before can comment without waiting for moderator approval, but any new … Continue reading “A Comment About Comments”
A lot of story had to happen in order to arrive at this scene. We will get to that. But right now, another WordPress blog goes live. That is not as dramatic as a big battle cruiser attacking a little spaceship with a princess and the data to to destroy the Death Star aboard. It … Continue reading “Epics Begin In The Middle Of Action”