Category Archives: tropics

Friday Figures- Oil and Water

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

In my manic getting-ready-to-travel-and-paint mode, I drop a lot of balls and wonder where I left my head, but you can expect packing to commence at least three weeks ahead. I try out equipment, repair and modify, build, work out … Continue reading →

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New Orleans Gumbo Report

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

On Magazine Street over margaritas and sherry-soaked scallop tacos, a New Orleans friend put it this way: “we are drinking people with a parading problem”. He was talking about his relatively local wheelbarrow parade, but he might have meant the … Continue reading →

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From a pile of old drawings

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

Snow is slowly printing out a Christmas-card wonderland in the front yard, while a hopeful cardinal sings from the rat’s nest of our dead trumpet vine. Even this early in the season, even with snow falling around it, the thing … Continue reading →

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