Friday, Sept 18th

Getting things started, getting things organized

As I have before, I am responding to a few friends who requested I repeat my original impetus to create a blog of my travels.

So here goes. Enjoy and drift in and out as images and words bring pleasure.

I'll start by sharing a few images from when I was getting ready and got on the road, and then meadner on.

Sorting slides for the lectures

My friend Mark in VW continues to use metal to express his imagination

I visited my brother Ken and his wife Jane at their new home in Oberlin, OH.

They took me to an interesting gallery. A woman makes portraits and other images from tree bark.

Tess always uses her mother's (Ali) phone and doesn't want to give it up.

This is her sister Emma. I saw this and started a new series, "After Vermeer".

My friend Steve in Crown Point likes to make portraits of me

This is called decompressing.

I responded by pretending he was modeling for a "Camels" shoot

We forgot the boots. Keds dosen't cut it.

He went a little further using one of the slides from my lectures to be.