Prickly Pears

In Ramona’s garden, Santa Barbara

Mary’s Birthday Dinner at Chez Panisse

Partially silvered candle glass

 

Menu.  Oy, that bisque! The evening was delightful, but exhausting.  On the way home, Mary criticized every stitch of clothing that I had on, my vocabulary and pronunciation, my social skills, and my cellular structure. “Mitochondrial DNA gets passed down matrilineally, right?  I thought so.  Mmm-hmmm. Explains a lot.”

 

Look who’s coming to town!

Hail, Hail, Fredonia, Land of the Brave and Free

 

Schwai’s

 

Thanks for opening up on a Monday to sell me brats, Mike!

 

“Just pull around to the back so nobody thinks we’re open, okay?”

 

 

Across the street (W3940 County Hwy H)

 

Mural & Antique Store

Packing & Shipping (?)

Y.O.B.S

Fishing Trip to Pewaukee Lake

Djeneba getting some reading done at Smokey’s Muskie Shop.


Andy Pilots the boat.  He took over from me after I killed the engine and couldn’t figure out how to get it started back up. Andy read the directions. Started the engine.
Show-off.


Andy musters the gear.


Bruce hauls in the anchor. About a bale of seaweed, and several pounds of rich fragrant Pewaukee mud.  Catch of the day. Photo by dj-bor.

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Djeneba indicates the diameter of the cold, hate-filled eyeball of the dread Pewaukee Lake Kolossal Kraken we outwitted by making it laugh (knock knock, who’s there?, yo momma, yo momma who?, yo momma has suckered tentacles and a propulsion siphon) and then, mid-guffaw, propping open its evil voracious beak with our oars. Better luck next time, you despicable, spineless (invertebrate) chromatophore-laden cephalopod.


Back safely on terra firma. Great trip.


…now this.  A painting of a dog in a sombrero. At Seesters in Pewaukee. ¡Olé!

Late July, Early August Daily Drawings

 

 

 

The kid in the window seat on my SFO-CHI flight drew something like this.  I copied it, all surreptitious-like.

 

 

Wisconsin

Squall at MKE. Exiting the Bardo (for now).

 

Badger

 

Djeneba dancing with a badger. 

Warm golden Wisconsin evening on the lake.

Calamine and Bandaids

 

Watercolor, ink, calamine, brown paper, off-brand bandaids & glue on 9 x 12” watercolor paper

Cropped

 

Inscribed for Cathy 10/24/12

Gonna Need a Bigger Bowl

B&W Freddie

Yellow on Blue on White

Watercolor on paper 7/22/12

Go sh

arks

ATTACK EAT OUR BUB8LE

Robo-Nanny on a Hot Day

Chirp chirp tweet. 

Oriole on Hummingbird Feeder

I think it’s a Hooded Oriole. Thanks for the new hummingbird feeder, MJF!

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Development of sketch of dream scene

 

One of those theta-wave images that you get when you’re drifting off to sleep. I had a good time passing this back and forth from my mind to paper to digital, back to paper, then scan that, color in photoshop, round & round

 

Tumbler

From the Refracted Light series.  More here.