More pictures from a couple years ago that I found today on my old computer.

I found some old pictures today while cleaning off my old computer. I took these a couple of years ago.

OK, maybe this isn’t my very first art car, but it was my first one in Minnesota. I did it a couple of years ago for the Fisherman’s Picnic Parade in Grand Marais.

I’ll be doing radio programs on WTIP:
Thursday November 1st, 7-10 pm Central time
Monday, November 12th, 7-10 pm Central time
Thursday, November 22nd, 7-10 pm Central time

Out of the area? You can listen via webstreaming at www.wtip.org, just click on the moose.

I’m looking forward to hearing all of David Ford’s new album, due out soon. I first heard his song “I Don’t Care What You Call Me” from his previous CD, “I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I’ve Caused” on a Paste Magazine CD sampler, and immediately bought his whole CD and the singles associated with it. It’s a rare treat for me to find a CD I enjoy so much!

Did you ever stare into a fire late at night, and see images form in the flames and burning wood? Sometimes it happens looking at the clouds. Sometimes that’s how it is looking into my paintings. Tonight I was at the neighbors’ and they were burning some brush and old wood. A certain nut on a bolt through a burning piece of wood looked like a cross from where we sat on the damp ground.

photo by Madeline

When I was a little kid living in Ferndale, Michigan, I really wanted to catch a squirrel. I set up a box, propped up by a stick with a string on it, and baited it with peanut butter on a popsicle stick. My plan was to wait until a squirrel ate the peanut butter, and then pull the stick out, capturing the animal under a cardboard box. What I thought I’d do next, I dont’ know. But it never got that far. So lately, I’ve been trapping these little critters in my yard here in Northern Minnesota. In the last two weeks, I’ve caught 8 squirrels, 6 chipmunks, 5 mice and two birds. I drive them a few miles up the shore and release them. I guess this is a childhood dream come true, but now I just don’t want them around.