The porn industry is a multibillion dollar business, with over 100,000,000 sites .

I wonder how many young people now will be able to view themselves online, being conceived.

I invented a new soup today.

2 cups of chicken stock
4 slices of bacon cooked and crumbled
1 pint cream
1/4 cup chopped carrots
1/4 cup chopped celery
2 cloves of diced garlic
1/4 cup chopped onion
2 tablespoons of butter
salt and pepper to taste

Simmer the vegetables in the chicken stock until tender
Add the cream and bacon
Serve in individual soup tureens with a pat of butter

Serves 2-3

January 1st 2012, whilst in Guayaquil I turned to close the shade before retiring for the evening.

A shadow caught my eye shifting swiftly across the courtyard beyond the alley.

A cat scampered across the concrete wall and up the Spanish tile roof, followed by its shadow, and then another and its shadow and yet one other and its shadow.

As quickly as they appeared, they vanished somewhere, where cats go to gather in the night.

Too abrupt to capture with my camera I grabbed my sketchbook and rendered the fleeting moment.

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Pen and watercolor 1-1-2011

I have been wanting to translate this moment onto canvas and finally yesterday I began...

Acrylic on canvas 9-11-14

And today I continued...

"Tres Gatos en el Tejado"

The Ghost Pepper shrub is contrived.

I shall endeavor to complete the piece by day's end mañana.

Updated

The last days of summer

a good time to soak up some sun with the family

acrylic on canvas

I was talking with my folks the other day and I came to realize that they both lived  deprived childhoods.

They didn't have cell phones. They didn't even have a phone at all. Most people didn't though.

They didn't have blue ray players and big screen TV's. In fact they didn't even have television. Most homes didn't have TVs in those days.

They didn't have Netbooks, I pads, laptops or even PCs. The personal computer hadn't even been invented yet.

So likewise, no internet.

Neither one of them had an electric refrigerator, or freezer. Just an old fashioned ice box. The ice man delivered ice regularly. The milkman delivered fresh milk daily.

My parents were not poor. Both my grand-dads had good jobs.

My parents never played video games as children. They never watched Monday Night Football.

Their family auto, when they finally got one, had no heater or AC or seatbelts.

They had no microwave popcorn, because they had no microwave ovens.

My parents grew up without an electric washing machine or clothes drier.

They had no gas powered lawn mowers, just the old heavy reel push mower.

My parents were deprived children. It's a wonder they survived at all.

She guards her treasure with fire and sulfur
eying intruders with disdain and contempt
A pool of acid her bed, a river of lava her quilt
selfishly she bathes in piles of gold and gems

The naked bones of heroes and treasure hunters
lie scattered and motionless throughout the lair
And now she spies you boldly standing here
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide your fate is sealed

For you from me...

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Like the rain gathering in the cloud I am ready to fall to earth and find a place to sleep,

but first I must share a little of my art with you.

"The Humpalumpalaff wanders out from the woods"

Oil on canvas -2014

A corner of my cave...

"Sunrise in my rearview mirror"

Acrylic on canvas - 2014

Good night and good rest.

I am very busy with roofing work this summer.

I have a $4.5 million roof project to complete before Labor Day. We are working ten hours a day, six days a week. I have a 41 man - 3 woman crew. Yes women can be roofers too, although most women have more sense than to become roofers.

Between the gardens, the art studio and the roof work, I haven't been able to entertain you all with my famous wit and charm.

I will stop in and visit you soon. I promise.

Until then, goodnight and God bless.

A delightful movie

with one of my favorite musical compositions (by Yann Tiersen)