At long last, weekend! Lori and I went to a fundraiser for the Academy of Fine Arts in downtown Lynchburg tonight where we enjoyed different types of barbecue from about ten different restaurants as well as different side dishes and beers from our own downtown microbrewery. I also tasted a little brown water from three different distilleries-I'm not astute enough with bourbon to know much more than it all burned and I'm probably good for another six months without any more. I'll stick with wine. But it was good food (loved the bison chili from the "Depot") and we were able to catch up with some neighbors and friends in a pleasant setting. I toured the Academy’s 1905 beaux-arts theatre last week-an amazing place if it ever gets finished and it looks like that will now happen and I have done life-drawing workshops in the Academy's art studios so I love the idea of restoring the place and adding the additional life the various other arts bring to it, both visual and theatrical. It was warm enough to go in shirtsleeves and not too cool when we left to have to rush to the car, so maybe the snow is past and spring is making an appearance.

Ah, the artwords part, hmmm, came home and painted for an hour on my new painting which I hope to finish this weekend. More about that at a later time. Hey, wait a minute, I just realized I was talking about art! That entire paragraph above was about the Academy of Fine Arts. I already covered my subject. In that case, I am going to bed. Whatever-no one is reading this anyway!