2 Shows End Soon

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Running behind on blogging as usual! “Bellisima,” Italian for “very beautiful,” is an online show that closes June 28. It’s hosted by KBM Art Gallery, Riverside, CA. You can view it here. I have two works in the exhibit. This is the fourth show for both Peach Champagne II and Âme du Bayou. Many thanks to the KBM Art Gallery jurors for including my work. Indiana University at Kokomo is currently hosting “Ethereal” in their brick and mortar gallery. Their call for art described the theme as a quality that possesses almost perfect or extremely delicate features that pertain to…

November: Chicago

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It’s a good month to go to Chicago: not yet so dreadfully cold as to keep me indoors, and hotel prices have gone down! November 26, 2022 – Downtown Chicago decks out for Christmas. One thing you can always count on is a huge Christmas tree in Water Tower Square. Adam, one of the photog friends I hang out with in Chicago, polished this big silver ball with his sleeve before we took our selfies. Sadly, I didn’t quite manage to get our reflections in focus, but I really like the photo anyway. That’s the Water Tower behind us, a…

October: Foraging

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Everything’s gotta eat! When I am out with my camera, I especially appreciate catching critters in the act of foraging. These are not always the “prettiest” pictures. Critters in the act of capturing and consuming each other can be a bit disturbing. But they are real and beautiful in their own way, and they tell an essential part of the story. October 22, 2022 – Banana spiders (Trichonephila clavipes) rule in the autumn woods in Louisiana! This web at Black Bayou Lake NWR spanned a 5-foot opening between shrubs next to the boardwalk trail. It is constructed of golden thread,…

#AdventWord #Rain

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Excerpt from Waterfall Sometimes it takes a rainy day Just to let you know Everything’s gonna be – all right All right   When you open up your life to the living All things come spilling in on you And you’re flowing like a river the Changer and the Changed You’ve got to spill some over Spill some over Spill some over Over all   Filling up and spilling over It’s an endless waterfall Filling up and spilling over Over all –Song by Cris Williamson –Album: The Changer and the Changed –Lyrics by Jeff Lynne