Signs of Spring: 2010 Edition (1)

Rhododendron "Lucy Lou" Rhododendron "April Rose" (It should have been named "March Violet" ) Rhododendron "April Rose" with fill flash

"Through a Window, Gothically"

Late Summer Trip from Fox Island to Hurricane Ridge

The beach delights the eyes, masterfully strewn with remnants of tidal treasures; shells, tectonically forged bits of granite, agates, living barnacles, sandstone, vermillion sea weed, and all dressed by the shallows of the translucent sea. High tide and violent winter storms leave logs of douglas fir to be bleached white in the sunlight of summer. Mount Rainier peeks from behind the opposite shoreline. Looking down the beach towards Point Fosdick, followed by a view of University Place . Part Kashmir, part Valhalla, a mile high and at the foot of Mount Olympus. Click to see big ass copies of these beauties.s

Day of the Diver

Every year, I’ll paint a couple of Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead paintings. This is my first one for 2011. I was going to add a shark in the scene, but then wondered if they were all cartlege. “Day of the Diver” 24” x 24” Acrylic on Canvas Happy Labour Day, Tony

This Time

It took me a long time to finish this piece because I put it aside for a week when my father made his first trip to Savannah to visit me. By the time he left, I was exhausted and couldn’t muster the energy to finish it for a few days. The title is simply the first thing that popped into my head once I finished it and stepped back to look at it.  “This Time” 16” x 32” Acrylic on Canvas Tony

"Backyard, New Mexico"

My house has been sold, the deed has been done, and the number of paintings left for me to paint in New Mexico are few. This painting of the view from my backyard will be one of my last here.    I leave for Savannah in two weeks, to buy another home there, and then fly back to prepare for my departure from New Mexico.   The 4th of July will be my last night here. I may be able to finish 3 or 4 more paintings before then, but maybe not. This is the second, and last, oil painting I've done here.   "Backyard, New Mexico" 12" x 24" Oil on Canvas Going, TONY

When Gay-Rod Meets A-Roid

Hummmm... PS: Go HERE to see Gay-Rod's hot new boy friend

 

"Gardening Muertos"

This is the only Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos painting I'll do this year. I had my own weekly chores in mind when I painted it........mowing, watering and pruning in my back yard. "Gardening Muertos" 24" x 30" Acrylic on Canvas Happy and Still Alive, TONY PS: I (T-Bird, the blog author) bought this painting.

Arod and his Hot Homo lover Mark Teixeira

Arod is tits up in love for his new Yankee boyfriend and brother Yankee Mark Teixeira. Here they can be seen immediately after Mark confessed to Arod “I love you - marry me” during the 2009 AL playoffs. Alex is all a flutter these days planning for a gala 2010 wedding at home plate. Oh how former boyfriend papi Derek Jeter may come to miss those rump pounding sleep-overs with his big baby butt boy Alex.

"Cannas"

This is another in my ongoing Floral series. I try not to paint the same flower more than once (but have). Some of the past paintings have been Anthuriums, Sunflowers, Orchids, Day Lilies, Camellias, Daffodils, Calla Lilies, Cymbidiums and Hibiscus. This one (from mon jardan) is. “Cannas”24” x 30” Acrylic on Canvas Florally, Tony

Take Two

It has been too long.  And so, I have decided to start up this blog again.  A lot has happened to me since I went deep into the underground where I have been in living in stealth mode.  More or less.  In the interim, we witnessed all the idiots stampede to the Fraud known as Facebook.  I mean, is anyone the least bit surprised by the immediate post IPO collapse of their share price and by the filing of lawsuits by greedy and/or stupid investors?  I wasn't.  And the remaining virtual village idiots stampeded to Twitter to join the other Twitter Twats in producing the cacophonous noise that occurs when ten million insecure and superficial souls wallow together in a group masturbation exercise.  Ah, the brainless people broadcasting every pimple pop and gassy fetid flatulence to 10,001 of their closest instant friends.  Join Facebook to Twitter and your result is a twin cluster fuck. Glad they all went away and left the blogging field to people with soul. The neighborhood is actually become quite pleasant again.  So here I am. What do I plan to blog about?   1). I plan on republishing my favorite posts from the past.  2). I plan on trolling though 30 years of diary entries and randomly publishing bits from assorted seasons of my life.   3). I plan on publishing new musings on the nature of this thing called life, the macro universe, and the micro universe. I had a near death experience two years ago that has left me quite changed from who I used to be.  At some point I will write about that.  I now have the perspective of having been a new born all the way through completing one full loop around the track (60 years).  Ah, the Year of Water Dragon once again.  I have many thoughts on what I have learned about the nature of “a life”.  So… And away we go for take two of Saturday Night Soup for the Soul.   Xoxo  Will

A New Car

 The Maiden Voyage I bought a new car last June. I promised myself that I would not do so until I paid off my home. This I accomplished ahead of schedule this past May (the 30 year mortgage would have come due Jaunary 2028). So, enters the 2012 Honda Accord V6 Ex Pearl white. 18” chromed alloy wheels, ambient azure coloured LED interior lighting, killer sound system. Makles road trips fun again.

Wallula Gap

Read about this mystical spot of landscape here.