The Beetles...

Not those beatles. These beetles!

On the Road Again

Peter thinks it always rains when we move paintings

Last week we delivered paintings to the Miller Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ten beautiful paintings moved out to the midwest looking for a home. With the help of the really great people at the Miller Gallery, they should find one.

Peter couldn't contain his excitement standing with a George Inness painting, his hero

A quick stop at the Cincinnati Museum of Art before we headed home, revealed all sorts of hidden treasures. It is a beautiful small museum that is worth a visit if you find yourself in southwestern Ohio, or northern Kentucky.

Van Gogh's Undergrowth with Two Figures

I had never seen this Van Gogh and just loved it!

Start a Blog!

The Marie Zimmerman Estate in the DWGNRA is a beautiful place for a walk

I've been a bit lazy with my blog. Summer and my ceramic sculpture explorations have taken precedence. It's time to start actively posting again. I have a few more photos from my walk at the Marie Zimmerman Estate in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area that I will be sharing in the next week or so.

The blog has been a great project for me to focus on my photography and discover what is of visual interest to me. It forces me to look and photograph at times I might not have. In the past, I always took photos, but they just went into a folder and I never did anything with them. Now it's been fun to go back and study what makes a photo a good photo and how to manipulate it in Photoshop to make it even better.

It's hard to believe that this is my 120nd posting. The blog has been a great tool for learning and a great tool for doing -- I strongly recommend starting one!

End of Summer

Peter and Paul along with Lisa and me at The Creamery in Port Jervis, NY

Fridge Pickles

Fridge Pickles in the making

I spent the day with visiting with an old college friend at her parent's house in Connecticut. They have the most amazing garden and they sent me home with an abundance of fresh vegetables and flowers. Along with the huge bag of cucumbers, her mother gave me a recipe for "Refrigerator Pickles". So easy to make and so delicious. Here's her recipe...

-- 7 cups of sliced cucumbers

-- 2 medium onions, sliced

-- 1 green (or red) pepper, chopped or sliced

-- 1 tablespoon salt

-- 1 cup apple cider vinegar

-- 2 cups sugar

-- 1 teaspoon celery seed

Mix together salt, vinegar, sugar and celery seed and add to the sliced vegetables. Refrigerate and stir 2 to 3 times the first day. Keep refrigerated in a covered jar. Yum!

Foggy Morning

Visit to the MOMA

Giacometti at the MOMA Sculpture garden

The new (not so new now) MOMA disappoints me every time I go. It has become more of a giant art warehouse and less of an intimate museum. There's no personality. It's just room after room with no consideration for the work and no point of reference from space to space. I still have my favorites I seek out but they do not seem the same in such gigantic sterile spaces.

We went to see the James Ensor show and that was quite good.

Yum, Pie!

My oh my, homemade blueberry and nectarine pie!

The bounty of summer fruits and vegetables is a glorious treat. I followed Martha's recipe for blueberry pie and added some local nectarines. It was most delicious!

Some Summer Photos

Orozco Murals

I never forget a face

Peter and I went to see the Orozco Murals at Dartmouth College. What an amazing asset for the school to have. The historic murals are right in the library for students and the public to view. I had seen them several times as a child and the memory of them had stayed with me all of these years.

Mirror Image

Fawns feeding under our bird feeder

Paul at SVA

Paul on his last day at SVA

Paul spent three weeks at the School of Visual Arts in their pre-college program. He loved art school and life in the city and never wanted it to end. One more year of high school Paulie!

Paul dives into a real meal at Bao Noodles

Caricature of Peter

A page from Illustrator Steve McInturff's workshop notes -- nice!

Sunday Workshop, The End

The final hour before everyone packed up and went their separate ways

It was a fun week -- we met wonderful people and now it's time to go home