Don't See in Here

I took the two shots on the right this afternoon and then thought of the left one as a companion [© A. Woolner 1999; you can see her in the 9th marble from the top].  Naturally I invoked the Prearranged Special Parental Copyright for using her images [...]

That’s today’s attempted abstract.  I generally like to surprise them in the wild, like this

or this

but I haven’t done it so much with color.  I guess I’ve been working in monochrome too long, because I was rockin’ with my range of charcoal-to-dove and its shock of blaze–

Um, no.

(It doesn’t matter how many times you say [...]

In a nod to Crazy Aunt Purl with the crazy LA gas prices, y’all, here’s the sign for my favorite only truck stop.  It’s 2½ miles from me, but I’m just now starting to capture in pixels its genial [...]

On Sunday Jef and I ran down the walk dodging raindrops – he had to go to work, and I had errands to do – when, just as we hit the driveway, we heard a voice from the road.
“Are those cows?”
We both looked up, surprised by the question as well as the fact of a [...]

Today’s title is pulled from Xan’s letter a couple of days ago, and if that isn’t a Mothers’ Day present, I don’t know what is  :-}
The “I can’t help it” is what makes it art, of course.  Somehow, with all the insecurities and the baggage and the righteous indignation that went into installing her [...]