I haven't posted for a while. Instead I've been canvasing and petitioning for health care reform. Been working on the Winona Arts Ce...

... much is required. Spent the morning commute thinking about noblesse oblige.

Health / Health Care Policy ‘Public Option’ in Health Plan May Be Dropped By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Published: August 17, 2009 For Presiden...

I don't know how you vote, I don't know your political leanings. That's not what's important here. It's health care refo...

Here's the completed smalti mosaic - prior to cleaning off the excess thinset adhesive. The photo is pretty good for color rendition, pe...

Today I spent the day creating a smalti mosaic at the Chicago Mosaic School . I attended a 1-day smalti workshop taught by Andryea Natkin. ...

This is the mosaic that got me started with mosaics. I first saw this mosaic last August when Abelisto and I visited Eileen in Chicago. I c...

The ship mosaic is large enough that it is getting harder to photograph. I've finished the sails on the ship, worked on the water a bit ...

Don't have time to write much, but I wanted to post an image of the work on the mosaic from the last couple nights. I think I want to re...

The ship mosaic is going well. Abelisto & I were out of town for a few days so I did not get much done on it since my last post. And no...

Tonight's work on the ship mosaic: I think I'm going to like the way the rolling waves are going to come out. It was hard to stop to...

Tonight I began working on the first of the Ships mosaics. This one is of a 17th century sailing ship in rough waters, with antique maps on ...

Abelisto 's bees swarmed today. It was amazing. At first I was sad that we did not "catch" them. But then I decided that it wa...

Here's a good reminder to READ the agreements you authorize over the internet - even if they are 20 pages long... and why I don't lo...

FASEM is the Fine Artists of Southeast Minnesota . There's going to be a show in June & July here in Winona and one of my mosaics ar...

I have to admit that I was behaving irresponsibly in regard to the Single-payer Health Care Plan. I was relying on the fact that people I tr...

Today I rode my bicycle to work for the first time this year. I'd wanted to start doing that when school let out and Abelisto would not...

I should not try to do too many other things at the same time I am working on art. Today I boiled the rice dry (and I was standing only 15...

Great post on bees and the world we live in - even though it's a bumblebee they've got pictured, not a honeybee. I'm waiting to ...

Here is the finished Mackenzie in the Garden with Bees as he was at the Art Tour. And Mac back at home. I've entered this piece in the S...