Inspector Hurd

Autumnal equinox

Here we are once again, perfect balance, poised on the edge ....

C&M

Well, Charles and Melanie are back in their house in Seattle now filled to bursting with cardboard boxes full of their belongings from Michigan.

Exercise gym?

Eddy says "Wait. What?" In temporary astonishment and/or sensory overload with his new activity center.

Wheels in the Setting sun

At Eliot and Kyra's

Transplanting the bearded Iris

A few weeks late.....

Shannon's visit

My sister Shannon is back home in Michigan after a two week visit out here.  She was the last of our summer visitors so it seems Autumn has arrived!

North Carolina

Charles is stacking brush, mowing fields and manhandling refrigerator compressors at his son Ben's organic farm in North Carolina.

Green all over again. Arrgh.

So I am working on this fair sized painting which has various tentative titles, currently Jewel Box 1, but could simultaneously be a Minoan something or something else, when I realized that I can't remember how I mixed the original green, which I like very much.  I have tried emerald green, permanent green, pthalo green blue, chromium green, SAP green, lime green, all with mixtures of white and hansa yellow, yellow ochre, ultramarine blue and cobalt blue.  Everything comes out too green, too blue, or too grey.  I know my original mix was very simple but that's all I remember.  I feel like I have been down this road before.

More bats

Got all the holes filled, commencing with week long exclusion process.

Warhol Tarp

In homage to Andy Warhol, I put a pretty new SILVER 20 x 24  tarp over my studio roof for the winter.  It's not up to FEMA specs but I am happy none the less.