well hello there

I am home visiting my parents this weekend... sometimes I forget how quiet it is here. I woke up this morning and realized the window next to my bed had been open all night... but I didn't hear a single car. Or airplane (I live in South... there are a lot of airplanes in my neighborhood)... Last night dad and I went fishing... on a lake we used to go to quite a lot when I was a kid... we drove past a house with Llamas in the yard... my dad said they keep them there to eat their grass... I think there were 3 Llamas... the next house had a bunch of tiny horses...

About art stuff...

I booked 2 art shows in the last week that are coming up in August and September.... one at Gingko in St. Paul (I've shown with them before) and one with RAW Artists.... we've been going back and forth a lot for a while... trying to find a month that will work... I think August it is...

Also... I submitted some photos to MPLSzine.... two were accepted.... see mine on page 9 and 19. The meat photo is from a night I was visiting my parents and my sister and I went to see them bowl.... they had a meat raffle.... my sister won.... that was her prize... and the second photo is from Loyola University... after a trumpet lecture... I liked the way the orange desks looked lonely on the blue carpets...

This painting hangs in my mom and dad's bathroom.... one of mine from a long time ago.

The first photo.... of the Tonka trucks needs a little explanation I guess...
when I was a kid my parents both worked at the Tonka Factory... last night when
we were talking I was telling them that I remember there was a paper bag full of
trucks we weren't supposed to play with above the dryer in our old trailer... my
mom walked over to the closet and pulled out a bag and said... you mean this
bag? hahaha.... we did have trucks we could play with of course... my favorite
were the big yellow dump trucks....