The Variations www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZJp...

Happy New Year! (1980) Here’s hoping for 2026.

Merry Christmas from my Great Great Grandparents!

Winter Solstice sunset. You know, if the sun wasn’t so bright, you could just make out the tower at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in pretty much the same place.

Living by water is nice but it can be also be geese.

In 1975, I took the “Women in American Literature” class at ISU. I believe it was the first time it was offered. Being a senior level class there were only about 20 students. I’m sorry to say I was the only male. Why was that? Is it still like that?

I first recorded this 4 years ago today and hadn’t played it since. So I figured it out, rearranged it a bit, and here it is again. If you like this kind of music a young man named Hayden Pedigo is coming to town on Nov 24. He is better than me. youtu.be/v5trPCUIxj4?...

This poor heron has been standing in the same spot for over two hours. Hope he catches something.

A new instrumental I've entitled Fluid because it's gone through so many changes to get to this point and is likley to be a little different every time I play it. youtu.be/ZvLkzeqeJVo?...

My brother posted this a little over ten years ago when he played at something called the Rock Bend Folk Festival in St. Peter, MN, where he lived. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzdg...

This is from our driveway. I Didn’t have time to get the best shot

I’m currently working on a new instrumental but I like improvising on it so much I may never pin it down. Every time I play it I do something a little differently.

I first posted this nine years ago. Right now I wish things were a lot less tizzy.

Monday morning we saw 100s, probably 1000s of monarchs in Lakefront Nature Preserve in Cleveland

Little Orphan Annie reading to Raggedy Ann.

I Didn’t Make It Home - it’s such a tragedy that the subject of this song keeps being repeated. I don’t know what the answer is but it’s more than just thoughts and prayers. youtu.be/dhNdFwDaZi0?...

Striker the bunny tries watermelon for the first time.

Stay alert! Almost hit a fawn just a few blocks southwest of the Courthouse in Bloomington.

More than anything I’ve composed in a long time, I find myself whistling this or singing it in my head. I may have posted it back in March when it was still a work in progress. This is the final version as of today. youtu.be/y2MeOJqlCgQ?...

I have a reading buddy tonight.

I think anyone, not just guitarists, will appreciate this little story. I’m still searching….

Ok. Who told Word of the Day that today was my birthday?

Walked with Marty at ECP in the morning. Saw an owl there and listened to my YouTube channel, saw the Will Higgins Museum of Fabulosity at Tube Factory, talked history and books at Pen and Pink, got a lead on a possible Open Mic at Indy Type Shop, and a fancy dessert at Cafe Babette Indy (yummy.)

This is my grandmother and Uncle Chester standing in front of her grocery store 82 years ago. They moved from Indy a year or two later and all of these buildings were lost when I65 and I70 were built.

I’m trying to play my guitars and mandolins again. Supposed to be good for my brain. I’m thinking about some kind of looper that would allow me to do several tracks if anyone has a suggestion. Here’s “Out of the Darkness A Bell Rings.” youtu.be/Aa_Zo1VQhkE?...

For Father’s Day: An early recording (1965?) of my brother and I accompanied by our Dad on the Sonka can full of nails that is in the lower right corner of photo.

I’ve long believed that the best Indy 500 related monument is in Knoxville, TN, and not in Indy. It depicts the tragic accident that Killed driver Pete Kreis and his riding mechanic. I saw it yesterday.

Today would have been my brother Bruce's 75th birthday. Here's a song he wrote about 50 years ago and recorded with a band, Whole Wheat, that played regularly at The Patio in Broad Ripple and also in Minneapolis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw90...

Today I took a tour that I developed (with help from others) and led for years. It was kind of like watching someone else raise one of your children. Fred did a great job and brought his unique perspective to the tour. (The tour picks from this Racing Legends Tour: crownhillhf.org/tours/racing... )

Just saw my first hummingbird of the season.

Back from a long Easter weekend where we chased wildflowers and caught colds.

Saw this on a monument

The House on the Rock in Wisconsin - After a while it starts to feel like you’ve stumbled into Captain Nemo’s (the Jules Verne fictional character) private museum.

No weapons allowed….except rosaries.

There are numerous trees down in Eagle Creek Park but they have gotten most of them off the road. Apparently worse as you go north in the park and past the north gate. We have also seen the owls we have been watching.

Tonight WFYI reran this Across Indiana piece in which I had a very small role. youtu.be/gSRaTryxKcw?...

Pate Hollow Trail, SE of Bloomington.. trail cleared but more trees down than I remember, fallen in last year or two

Bunny Hop

Going up behind Riley on Crown Hill.

These two couples seem to have forged an uneasy truce.

The deafening sound of spring.

I was trying to catch a mood here before it passed. So this is more even spontaneous and unrehearsed than normal but I like how it turned out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZjn...

By the Gulf of Mexico last Thursday.

Sophie (?-1/30/2025) (b&w) and Snuggle (6/17/2014-2/19/2025)(white). 5 yrs ago. He would have it totally chewed in a day. She was probably done messing with hers. Can’t believe they’re both gone and so close together. She was a rescued rabbit and he was born in our house after Marty rescued mom.

Selling Jennie Devoe CDs tonight during her show at Hendricks Live! Looks like a nice new venue.

Happy Birthday to our son, Zane Davis, as he enters a new decade.

I wouldn't mind going over the rainbow for awhile. (this came up as a memory from two years ago. It's a different arrangement that what I've been playing lately, maybe better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cS3...

Here's an interesting guitar player to watch and especially to listen to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=md1Z...

This is worth reading: sherrilyn.substack.com/p/democracy-... And more importantly, has things worth doing!