new crayons from my dear cousin and art-buddy, illustrator Annina Luck 🙂 See some of her wonderful art on her blog, All My Characters!

I was thinking about hope.

because a mermaid angel would never go anywhere without a red handbag

Tonight I sleep in a mermaid’s lair.

It feels like she’s here, but she’s everywhere.

I have 2 pictures for you today.

1. Spent most of the day getting the neighborhood wall mural ready for community additions at next Sunday’s block party. Mostly painting large areas of color today, but we got the overall design all blocked in, after poking at it weekly for most of the summer.   Top photo is the whole paint crew (that’s me on the far right). This is the biggest thing I’ve ever designed. I’ve painted my house, which was bigger, but doesn’t have pictures on it! (yet!) 

2. After I  got cleaned up and fed, Dan and I went to 1Forward in Greenfield to be at Ruth Garbus’ album release concert. My doodley musings:

After a weekend of seeing and hearing great shows turned in by less-well-known, local-ish performers, I have a thing I want to say:

I often hear from people my age that there’s no good music being made these days. That is simply NOT TRUE; it’s only that they’ve stopped looking for it. There is wonderful, topical, relevant, fun, fabulous music everywhere, often made by people who can’t make a living at it but do it anyway. There are DIY venues and little clubs and even larger places like Brattleboro’s Stone Church that are showcasing great stuff. Go out, listen, bring friends. It will make you a richer and happier person.

That is all.

Quick one after a long day, ending with a great show by Will Wood and the Tapeworms, with Lobotomobile as the warmup set.

honoring the cycles of insect life

staking a spot on Lonely Hill