Don't Wanna Miss This

It's Official! Day 1.

Eliot starts at Seattle Center, and gets "swag" . . .
and
more swag . . . (as he says) . . .

Baker Lake Camping Photos -- September 24 and 25

My Personal Needs

I have been asked to evaluate

My needs and to start living

With some purpose & clear traits

 

After deep consideration I have identified my personal needs

Which are As follows:

 

I need to be in Love

I want to always be spun

In the magic of being

Allured by Love

I am willing to sift through

The heartache and outlast

The betrayals of the heart

And soul but I will do this

Only to remain in Love

 

I need to be in Love

 

I need to be able to do my art

At least one hour a day

And to add two or three starts

Over the weekend days

To write or paint or to stare

At paintings of Rembrandt

Are essential needs for my care

 

I also need to watch and listen

To my media of choice

At whatever volume I need for my zen

As long as my love is agreeable

With my personal yen

Being in love with my love is

Still my number one need

 

Being able to eat on a regular

Basis is my next most important need

 

So there you have it my friends

Four needs to satisfy my passions

And to bring to an end

Any misunderstanding about

How to manage and understand

A simple and lovable lout

Like me

 

Charles Grimes

Happy 60th, Brother Tom

Slavko Writes: Back in Milna

How damn good it feels to be back in Milna, a month has passed in Solin usually working whole day, and scorching on the hottest few weeks out of whole year. What a luck! We rented a place not far from us, an on the outside it looks like Norman Bates motel, each time we go in and out we checked if anybody's passing the street (from embarrassment)! Now we have a bedroom and running water. Here are a few photos of it. Didn't have time to finish Ulysses, nor I've seen Internet, so enjoying myself last few days. Nice salmon on the grill, and will try to get hold on the museum guide. If you haven't been in archaeological museum in Split it's about time to visit it, I've seen stellas on the outside, and should be seen what is going on inside. Ha-ha, haunted by the figs, see you subconscious on work, looking good!

P.S. Let name some of the photos:
- Look for me on www
- O I wish I had...
 - My darling in rosemaryes
- I have a hill, too...
- Moonrise at home
- Looking through my window, watching!
- Fall resemblance

Stay well John, hope to see you soon
Many regards from Nada and me,

Slavko 

Our Rose of Sharon

. . .did very well this year in spite of the nitrogen-robbing raw wood shavings I ignorantly piled around it this spring.  Remember when?

Olivia's 75th Birthday at Our House

The Magician delighted children, teens, adults . . .

Sadie's painting: tulips, sunflower, pine and hearts . . .

The Bonfire

Long time friends:  Leona, Olivia, Judy Baker

Chaz Sez: Picasso

At times we meet 

Those who find themselves 

Horrified by the personal lives of 

Artists & writers I personally am neutral 

On this subject 

I personally Say yes they are such twits 

But man look at this ART 

I don't care about these themes 

When I think about Picasso 

I just would like to spend a 

Few days with him and his boys 

Working on art 

Talking about  Painting & 

Geometry & and Girls 

Having crazy famous and brave 

People dropping by in the mornings 

Afternoons spent our on the 

Veranda with Dora & Lee & Nusch

Sunning ourselves and comparing 

Stories about the 

Minotaur and walking around the studio filled with canvases 

And being shown the magic pieces     

Meanwhile, back East . . .

More flooding from a second tropical storm to the west and a hurricane to the east, a foot of rain the past day or so.
Just a bit of water backing up in a basement drain and water in the garage, hopefully that will be it.
Looks like we will top what Agnes did in 1972 and have the wettest year on record, this after no rain in June and July.

Tim took the photo of the Delaware River on his way to a meeting at Columbia Law School in New York today, we shall see if he gets back to Baltimore tonight for a flight to Boston tomorrow morning to meet with New England Journal of Medicine again I think.


Lynne

In Work

Riches 2 (My Fabulous Figs 2)

(p.s. I just can't resist painting heart-shaped fig leaves for some reason.)

What I Heard at 4 AM Outside My Bedroom Window

THIS went on for over 30 minutes.