It seems to me, after these past 10 days, that the death of a dear one makes us feel like we are ourselves lost. Tragic, unexpected, untim...

A great friend is gone and today, or tomorrow they are turning off the machines that are keeping his body alive. A new experience for me and...

My Las Vegas vacation is just about over. We've been here about a week. We've done some fun things and spent some great family time....

in a floating garden .

My interview on KQAL played today . The editor did a good job taking nearly 2 hours of material and coming up with a good 25 minutes or so. ...

I have finished the Sheba mosaic. I decided not to trim the edge tesserae, but instead to let them hang out over the frame. Next I have a...

Click the photo and take a look at this slideshow of Abelisto & me capturing a swarm (with the help of Joyce and Paul). What a rush! ...

I've not been doing much work on the mosaic this month. I needed to redesign my website montagaelmay.com   and apply the design elements...

I haven't posted about the mosaic in a while. Earlier this week I finished the face and the hair, trimmed off the excess mesh and glued ...

This mosaic's name hereafter will be Sheba. I think it looks enough like Sheba to be titled with her name... I have taken some liberties...

Over the weekend while working on the mosaic I decided that I would have the hair on the portrait's right side (left as you're looki...

Spent the time I normally would have used to create this post before work discussing memorial arrangements for the wife of a friend. Very sa...

Okay, a bit of an exaggeration. I've only been working on this mosaic since April 1st, but I did have hopes of getting farther along on ...

Managed to get back to work on the portrait mosaic. There's a bit of a bounce-back from the camera flash, but this image is still pretty...

More reasons to not use Flash on websites... Steve Jobs - Thoughts on Flash Actually, I look at Adobe in much the same way I look at M...

I've been reading about SB 1070 - the Arizona anti-illegal immigrant law. It's very alarming, and it makes me no little bit sick t...

One of the online discussions I participate in has sort of ground to a halt over the perceived direction of our country. To me it seems that...

Yesterday I built handrails for the porch steps so that people coming to the art tour next weekend can come up and down on the steps more se...

I've resisted using Picasa even though uploading photos to a Blogger blog creates Picasa web albums with the images automatically. T...

Tonight's progress... I reworked some of the shadows around the dark side of the nose and added more smalti for the shadowed side of t...