Break Down

Having the responsibility of being one among us who watches for one who is different from the other ones, I notice that a certain car doesn't seem to be moving. Must be broke down or something.

promised land

Getting High

Turning away from the heavy traffic a friend and I took a lonely two lane from 101 to Loleta. We found that The Gilded Rose tavern has been closed for two weeks now, sigh, so we went to the only eatery in town for lunch, the Loleta Bakery. A very nice Norman Rockwell like setting. The food was excellent. Potato soup made with young whole potatoes, one inch in diameter, freshly harvested from the back yard etc. Leaving town we had lemonade from a stand run by some local kids. Sweet.



After that we went to Ferndale where we walked and walked and walked all around the County fair. I viewed "Wedding Cake", a tall ceramic sculpture that won a red ribbon for 2nd place in the juried art show. It was by one of my favorite local artists, Mary (Trixie) Galletti. Trixie has a penchant for making tall vertical phallic like expressions in clay, the higher the better. Her cake is stunning. I stood there entranced by it for a long long time. It was the highlight of my day. Unfortunately, I didn't have a camera along but here is a sample her work.

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Sometime later, I found a comfortable place to sit and draw some sketches for the papier mache amusement park that we are constructing at The Studio. A guy sat down at a picnic bench next to me and proceed to smear his hands full of ketchup and then lick his fingers, sticking each one fully into his mouth and shlurping. I'd heard that the sugar in ketchup makes it addicting, but ...



Again we walked, screams issued from the roller coaster and other rides as Carny characters full of meth enticed us to throw dull darts at half filled balloons to win teddy bears worth less than half the price asked for the darts. We looked at the quilts and prize winning jams and jellies, passed by the cows and headed for the beer tent. Then, standing amidst the dog on a stick and ice cream stands, I stretched my neck to watch Galaxy Girl perform several hundred feet above me. Trixie would have said, "go higher!":

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All and all a very enjoyable afternoon. Too bad about the Gilded Rose though.
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Now and Again

a horn sounds --beep beep-- as the cars switch lanes and swagglewaggle into position.

One Two Three Four

As everybody knows, by and large, certain grotesquerys appear and blunder on to the end of their inventory. If I've said it once I've said it 50 times.

Round and Round I Go

round and down I go,
it's that old black magic ...

Hitting The Curve

We tried an alternate position today. This allows for a geometry that wasn't applicable previously.