drawing, circa 1991 ...
its pre-dawn and a thick fog covers the hillsides and fields here in the Delaware river valley - and i'm feeling clear, centered, and ready to take advantage of milder weather with quarts of color i've been mixing and saving for a day like today ...
one of these days i'll try to figure out why painting brings me such joy - but not now ...
mmm, a quotable quote and brain food:
The past is strewn with the ruins of the empires of tyranny, and each is a monument not merely to man’s blunders but to his capacity to overcome them. Martin Luther King, Jr.
last night on jon stewart's 'the daily show', David Walker - author of 'comeback america' discusses the need for policy, operational, and political reform, and, points out that america lacks outcome-based indicators - he should know - he worked for the government [lack of] accountability office ...
it's an interesting job when you can get it wrong as often as the weather person and still get paid for it - kind of like politics i guess - and i heard the meteorologists in great britain are being taken to task for precisely that reason - the people are fed up with their inaccuracies ...
maybe i'm having a premature senior moment - like remembering walking to school in 3 feet of snow - uphill, both ways - but i'm pretty certain, that most of my life, i'd watch the 11 o'clock weather and be prepared for the next day - now either [1]they're unqualified to read the computer models, [2]the models are inaccurate, [3]there's too many man-made variables influencing weather changes, [4]the weather is behaving erratically, or [5] they're not looking outside ...
unfortunately, i didn't have favorable conditions for an extensive run at painting outside - no matter, the paint will keep, the foreplay is fun, and i've got more images to scan before updating the web page - looks like weather is on the decline for the rest of the week [?], and i've got business to attend to - so it'll be a squeeze play if conditions permit ...
