I need more time...

 
Latest page in the Sketchbook Journal Project...based on time getting away from me..I need to wrap up this project ASAP..other projects are piling up with Christmas around the bend...time is soooo precious this time of year..but somehow it eventually all falls into place.

Just for tonight...

 
"Backward, turn backward,
oh time, in your flight....
make me a child again,
just for tonight!"
-Elizabeth Akers Allen

The Breakfast Club....

 
Our Saturday morning Breakfast Club has evolved from once in a while to an every weekend occurance. We meet every weekend at LaSalles in Collinsville..sometimes as few as three, other weeks we may have 8 or 10. It's a revolving door of friends and family. I think it is becoming a tradition :)

A host of ghosts...

 
It's almost Halloween and the ghosts and goblins are out in force...this group seems harmless enough...but mere mortals never know!

The lure of the sea...

 
"Beauty without grace, is the hook without the bait."-Ralph Waldo Emerson (A fishing shack's window of colorful lures in Menemsha, MV.)

...the same boat...

 
"We have all come on different ships, but we are all in the same boat now."-Martin Luther King..(with two weeks until the election, can we all stop the negativity and get to work on the problems at hand)

Who lives in a Pineapple....

 
....under the sea, Spongeleah Square Pants...this is Leah's Halloween costume this year....took a little mathematical configuration and artistic help, but the end result is sweeeeet!

Goodnight sweet princess...

The latest page in my sketchbook project...two more pages to go!

You like it..that's all...

"You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it, it hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting, forces your eye."-Clement Greenberg

The new ride...

Finally, after a few false starts, Leah has her new car, a lovely Saab sedan, crimson red (not her favorite color)..but it's growing on her...hello red rocket...good bye blue bullet!

It's the little things...

Sometimes you just find little bits of interesting patterns as you walk along the street..like this black and white top to a fire hydrant...nothing out of the ordinary and yet it caught my eye.

All the Pretty things...

 
"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant and handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Smart Man...

 
"Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold."-Bob Marley....a photograph in a gallery window with the reflection of the store across the street, Vineyard Haven.

Killing the Blues...

 
"Somebody said they saw me, swinging the world by the tail, bouncing over a white cloud, killing the blues."-John Prine
(off the coast of Cape Cod)

Angry mood...

 
"On the whole, we were glad of the storm, which would show us the ocean in it's angriest mood."-Henry David Thoreau..Martha's Vineyard, up island beach, after the storm.

Natural Beauty...

 
Having spent the last 4 days on Martha's Vineyard as a Nor'easter came through...I was in awe of all the natural beauty of the surf at Gay Head. The skies were overcast and full of ever changing clouds, the sea sparkled and the waves crashed against the shores...I loved it!

And now for a break in the action...

 
Alas, I am heading to Martha's Vineyard for the next 4 days...and as much as I am thrilled to be getting away...I will not be bringing my laptop...although I am sure I will take a zillion photos..I will finally be breaking my committment of posting a photo a day for the first time this year...I will post when I get back..and back number the pix...but damn..I wanted to not miss a day...oh well, let it go! Peace out!

The Unusual Ones....

 
"That proves you are unusual, returned the scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed."-Lyman Frank Baum

Dancing with ghosts...

 
"God made our arms just long enough to embrace ourselves: go ahead, try it-nobody's watching....stop dancing with ghosts." Time to move forward

Shadows and Light...

 
"Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you."-Maori Proverb...there is no better sun than an autumn sun casting it's shadows across my vibrant flowers today!

Stay on the ride...

 
"You can let me off here son. Thank you for the ride."...and the driver said,"this is the middle of nowhere, sir"..he pulls off to the side. And the old man says, "It might look that way to you, son...and maybe it is," but he says, "if you stay on the ride, gonna take you somewhere...always takes you somewhere, somewhere, somewhere.."-Patty Griffin (Stay on the Ride)...a colorful bus stop in West Hartford Center

Feed them with kindness....

 
Our friend, Mary Lou invited us over to her new home this morning for a thank you breakfast. Traci, Linda and myself have been helping her transition to her new home. She made a culinary feast to repay our kindness...it was our pleasure. Afterwards we helped her hang pictures and took her on a shopping whirlwind thru Home Goods...great day!

TBS Penguin Motif...

 
Various staff members have been painting murals around our halls this fall in an effort to spruce up the place. Our P.E. teacher has been doing an awesome rendition of our school mascot, the Rockhopper Penguin. I warned him, that I was so impressed he may have to end up on my blog...well here it is!

My bud...

 
OK...what can I say, it's 10:30 p.m. and I am finally putting up a photo, because I went out to celebrate our friend's 60th this afternoon after work at the Wooden Tap and I was "feein' good". So now, I finally checked my camera and here's a photo of me and my bestest bud, Linda. Life is good!

The Blackbird...

 
"O blackbird! Sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plates of fruitful ground, where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell."-Lord Alfred Tennyson

Sunflower's demise...

 
"The gaudy leonine sunflower hangs black and barren on it's stalk, and down the windy garden walk, the dead leaves scatter hour by hour."-Oscar Wilde

Positive/Negative...

 
HeART in Hand Art Camp started it's fall session today at Roaring Brook School...this was my first project with the kids (mostly 1st and 2nd graders). They did a great job with their designs although they kept wondering why I chose to make their pumpkins black and white instead of orange. I just told them you have to think outside the box (or pumpkin) sometimes.