#ArtAdventCalendar From Emily Lex's watercolor workbook

#ArtAdventCaldendar from the workshop that started it all

#ArtAdventCalendar Christmas card from 2023

#ArtAdventCalendar we were supposed to have snow overnight but no such luck. Snow globe will have to carry it...

#ArtAdventCalendar wading through emails that came while I was out... Here's someplace else to be rather than back to work

Lisa Pope (contemporary American artist) "Transparent Trio," Watercolor on paper 18 x 24 in #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Just forwarded this to Krissy, either she will laugh or I will die

Here’s a quick tip for counting the rows between cables when you lose track! I find a double-pointed needle works great for this. How do you keep track, #knitsky? #tiptuesday

#lake #ontario #canada #nature

My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.

Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani is STILL out chatting it up with the people. He was trying to do content but the voters kept popping up.🥹

- 7 cups of water (I use stock or bouillon if available, otherwise salt to taste) to 1 scant cup of rice - bring water and rice to a boil, stir once, then cover with lid and cook over medium heat for 30-40 minutes, stirring on occasion to keep from sticking - once rice has cooked for this time

Driveway raked, candy bowl filled. Trick or treat ready!

Yesterday's Word Count = 984 Let's celebrate with a bit of Iain M. Banks, all that chilly Scottish irony.... brrrr refreshing.

Well, this book has pretty much everything I'm looking for at the moment. #SpookySeason #Halloween #CosyMystery #GingerCat #Magic #BooksandTea

This is last night's observation. This is NGC 7822 an emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus. #astrophotography

Pete Hegseth is doing everything he can to push women out of the military. He's fired, demoted and intimated the women who serve our country in uniform. Now he's doing what he can to make sure women don't even consider signing up to serve. Nearly one hundred years of effort and investment wasted.

Sometimes you've got to bake about it.

It would be really neat if we didn't have to add a chapter on the First Amendment to those books about crazy laws that are still in the books. Right after the chapter about how you can't lure away a horse with an ice cream come in your back pocket. Or let a donkey sleep in a bathtub.

Your vote is your voice! This National Voter Registration Day, check your status by visiting vote.gov and encourage at least one friend or relative to do the same. Even if you have registered before, it never hurts to check!

Dahlias are just so extra

On this day in Horror/Sci-fi History, THE BLOB was released in 1958.

Sunrise insight 9/10: There is enough good for all of us. We strive for more from dawn to dusk, all our life. It's natural to stretch towards the sun, that's how we grow. Have confidence: the source of light is endless. Shake off the dew, open up wide to receive. #SunriseInsight #photography

They are privatizing Medicare, which means they will profit off denial of coverage. Say no to the GOP or face loss of insurance.

Painting on the deck #watercolor

Gonna start referring to productivity software like people talk about video games. "Oh yeah Google Docs is a Cloud-bases Word-like." "Trello is a Lanestyle Jiracore Tasklike" "Only weaklings need to use a Pomodoro to get through Sheetstyle work."

An idea:

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

You think you don't have time to do it right... what makes you think you have time to do it twice?

Cut the mango we bought this weekend before it went over!

Ezra Koenig was on some existential shit when he wrote “I don’t wanna live like this, but I don’t wanna die”

Shout-out to my fellow Gen-Xers, out here in our 50s with clothes that say we're 25 and knees that think they're 90.

Sunken Lane, 1884 by Paul Gauguin (French, 1848 - 1903). Oil on canvas | n.d. Private Collection.

This Osprey is so majestic…. 🥰 And in the bird world this is considered a sick move….

Hot dog buns for National Hot Dog Day (celebrate all the things)

#BlueSkyArtShow #SummerDaze #EastCoastKin #Photography

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” - Publius Ovidius Naso

I was given an ultimatum.

Wrote this during Trump 1.0 and it still holds. No one knows how to be a goddamn professional anymore. But you and I still can. www.gq.com/story/how-to...

nothing makes sense in computational modelling, except in the light of these two all-time classic maxims: 1. all models are wrong, some are useful - George Box 2. everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler - Albert Einstein

Machu and Picchu, macaws at the zoo. #watercolor

Grand day out in Philly. Don’t believe the hype, the people are awesome. Oh and, Save SEPTA!

June 7, 2025 What I have been quietly working on for a year:

Also Star Wars (it wasn't the stars who were warring, it was people and some aliens)

We hope you don't find the etymology of 'tawdry' morally sordid, base, or distasteful.