Reconnecting With Long Lost Friends

Well, here we go, we finish school, marry, start our careers, and life just happens. We lose touch with people, and we really do lose touch! We don't know where they are, are they still on this Earth, are they well, are they happy? Then comes Facebook! Last week I began reuniting with high school buddies and it is wonderful. Now we are able to look into each life via online photo albums and do some virtual catching up!

I know, you can't go back in time and recreate the glory years, but people don't change that much! If anything, we are refined and better than we were when that first zest of life was motivating us, and the world was an open book. Now we have pages to share in that book, heck, we have chapters, maybe even novels.

Alright my good friends, now there is no excuse, let's create a new era of friendship! I can't wait to reconnect with all of you face to face.

A Question for the Property Tax Assessor $$$$

If in recent years, my property value has in fact plummeted, I ask you, in all fairness, why did my Property Tax increase this year? This does not make sense to me! Who are you people??? What are you spending my money on??? Get a grip people, quit creating more county and city jobs, that don't improve my life, and take money out of my savings! Stop it!

I bet they start a Rooster Round Up Squad! Num Nuts!

Roosters

The rooster population has now grown to four. One hen has chimed in. They are out and about every morning, not as vocal in the winter, as in the summer. They cross the busy street without fear, they crow, they strut, they are beautiful.

Digging Out of the Frozen South

Atypical weather for South Carolina. We have had some extremely long bouts of cold temps. This challenge in my studio, which according to my standards was a deep freeze, made me all the more appreciative of the issues of my forerunners. I am spoiled by central air, and automatic heat. While the paint was hardening on the palette due to the cold, I thought, how did they do it? How did they paint without heat, how did they keep their focus? I am in awe of them! I bow down to them! They are my heroes! If they could create beauty in those conditions, I can do it!

Rooster Update

The Wood Street Rooster has found not one, but two hens. It is hilarious to hear then clucking around the neighborhood. So, there are three "chickens" roaming the streets of Georgetown, crossing the street, searching front yards for food, and the Rooster, still crowing every grey dawn.

Rainy Day - Bad Light

I have tried repeatedly to paint today, but the light is horrible in the studio, and I have a lot on my mind. These are trying times for all artists. It is imperative to focus on the "bigger picture", and not become bogged down in the economic rhetoric.

Actually, I have a very optimistic outlook for the future of art. This is my life sentence, not a passing whim. I will continue to create works of art, regardless of the outcome. This is faith, and this is life. Never giving up, always stepping forward.

Wood Street Rooster + Wife

The Wood Street Rooster now, and I have no idea how this happened, found a hen. Downtown Georgetown, a rooster and hen roam, cluck, crow and eat I don't know what. I thought it was a smaller rooster, but, it is a hen. They cross the busy street together, they are emotionally attached. Less crowing during the day, but at grey dawn, it begins. This guy has been around all summer, where did the hen come from, should I start looking for eggs??