February 9th, 2008
still here
Over the past couple or so days, in comments left at this post, there were a couple of queries as to where I’ve gone (hi Clare). Well, I’m still around, but not as active in my usual ways, so things have almost ground to a halt in the blog posting department. This is partly due to the kind of winter we’ve been having — a lot of snow which seems to have kept me indoors more than usual — but there’s more. For the past while, we’ve been busy dealing with a major bump in the road to our lives. A couple of months or so ago, Don retired due to a serious (and quite unexpected) illness. Suffice to say that things are a little upside down around here these days. And, winter seems to be dragging on interminably. We are very much looking forward to spring weather which, unfortunately, is still a few weeks off. With the return of sunshine and insects, no doubt I will have plenty to write about once more.
In the meantime, I’ve been putzing around doing some drawing and painting in my spare time. The above is the result of an afternoon’s work. If you know your Gauguin, you’ll no doubt find the background familiar. Inspired by his, Nevermore, I painted a good friend’s cat curled up on a bed in Tahiti — a place and pose which is entirely in character for this particular cat. My apologies for the large signature on the painting, but I get somewhat ticked off when my art gets copied and posted on other people’s sites without some kind of attribution (as happens quite often with my photos), so I decided to mark this one. Any friends who would like to see a somewhat larger unmarked version are welcome to email me and I’ll send you a copy.
Thanks to everyone who has continued to drop by to check on my blog. No promises about how much posting I’ll be doing in the next few weeks, but I do expect that things will pick up once we get into better weather.
