My Neighbors House

The white house with black shutters across the road from me - my neighbors; with their tractors and garden, the blackberry bushes and the mowed lawns with the pink mimosa tree leaning into the pond in the summer; then it is invisible, for my hedge row of trees is all I can see.http://www.blogger.com/

He who gives quickly gives twice

When this poor fellow was working for me he asked to be paid for the job before it was complete - with only a little work promised !


I had some greens and some fruits I was perhaps going to eat or should I give them to my chickens ?


Well the already paid for work promised never was finished - And - The produce could have been given sooner in a much fresher state -

Notes To Remember By

Yesterday evening as the darkness slowly approached I lay looking west -Watching- the the top of the shag bark hickory tree - Changing - from grey to a fiery golden color.

Here these trees had a blue ? purple ? moment - an other-worldly feeling pushing out of the greys. Me with my new colors adjusting - making due.

Guatanamo bay

OK say we had citizens of USA *adopt* these detainees - treat them well - perhaps celebrities like Brad Pitt could lead the way .......- you know - All of us - even if we are having a difficult time - perhaps we invested with Mr Madoff or just lost a job ? Still - what are we going to do with these men whom we have tortured for 8 years ?

You are the herdsman of the evening

Yesterday I went to a lecture at the Arts club Chicago given by Chrissie Iles on German Artist Sigmar Polke. When I first saw the paintings the day before at the opening tea - I did not like them - I thought they were disjointed and with out heart - the slickness of the corrugated clear covering - That covered each work - seemed with out heart or purpose. After the lecture and seeing them a second time my feelings were reversed in and I realized the possibilities for my own work and my own images - I became interested in the layered *effects* the letter press or tarot card - nursery rhyme images and really saw some poetry that was personal to me. The fabric and the funny optics are tricks I am going to play with - in my imagination.

This Drypoint with the extreme Chinese overlay is one of the pieces that leads me to these ideas - the gold leaf japan paper the careful mistakes and the backwardness of the writing - personal and for me overflowing with meaning.

Runing Away

I try to remember: what is the time of day - Its a late summers day about three in the after noon - out and about - Here in this effort - everything is wrong - believe me this for if I pressed on nothing would line up - I'd never without wringing my paint rag play the sweet game of millimeters - oh no no no. So with out so much as a kiss my shoe I stopped and proclaimed - It is very beautiful.

Osage Orange

With the addition of 4 donkeys - SiereveMaria, MaryAngelina, MaryDorian, and Joselito; I needed to arrange for a fence around my garden. My desire for something that would fit in with the nature I have and not obstruct my view led me to the old time osage orange fence posts that have been used in the midwest for the past hundred years. The wood is extremely hard and *if properly installed* will last for - well - a long long time - even though it has a weathered - rotted look - it is deceiving - impervious to decay, difficult to cut and to work with - now difficult to find - I with difficulty found someone who would install such a fence - Now such a person might have reasons for taking on a job no one else wanted - say they were - well - too fat to really work at a regular job or a free spirit with an old time idea of farm beauty -

The necessary tools would be a tamper, a posthole digger, a bail of rusted cattle wire,oasge orange posts,and wire.