First Series

My first series of watercolor paintings is begun. I have always intended to  do a series of related theme paintings but have never been able to do it for some reason. Upon completion of my new painting "Puddle Jumpers" I have finally completed a second painting within the same theme. Will there be more? I'm not sure because I am a little tired of umbrellas (hey wait, that may be why I have never completed a series of anything...) but I won't say no. I have more resources within this idea so it very well may come about. Prints will soon be available of both of these. Kindly contact me if you are interested! I must be crazy-no one is reading this anyway!

Well it is May 16 and we have about three weeks of school left. Yesterday Glenn Beck got his first degree, an honorary one from LU in return for spreading some fear at their "graduation". Soon we will be honoring real grads as they leave the system and head to college or jobs. Hopefully they won't waste time being educated at a place that brings in media darlings to offer less than meaningful words to send them on their way. But as the year winds down and we think of how this year has passed, it has been pretty good for us. Hannah changed schools, has found a home with nicer kids and better teachers and as a family we are beginning to let some of the ugliness we have experienced at the hands of stupid, self-important kids from the "good" high school in town pass. They managed to make our daughter miserable for 5+ years, but not any more. So we look at summer as a sort of rebirth with less concerns about who is saying what about whom. Hopefully this will lead us right into Hannah's college days and she can heal and forget. But who is reading this anyway?

So I know that no one is reading this, but the Yankees are about to come to bat on gameday and until that happens I have a moment to register my thoughts on today. The school system gave us the day off today because of the local city council elections. The Falwell brothers, Jonathan and Jerry Jr. are basically trying to sway election results by employing the 4000+ votes of out of town Liberty University students as a bloc Republican vote. Three more reprehensible candidates than the Republican bloc in this election couldn't be found under the slimiest rock. But LU could announce nuclear war against Afghanistan and these three clowns would support the idea-not that any of them would be involved-they'd find someone else to do their fighting. But I digress. This has been on the minds of most of Lynchburg all day and for the past several weeks. The Falwells won't rest until they have control of every elected office in the area and if the state example of local representation is any example of what we can expect, the idea of effective representation is a pipe dream. All we have to show for the past ten - fifteen years of Republican control of the state legislature and our particular representation on the state level is a sign on 460 saying "Jerry Falwell Parkway" and a lot of rhetoric about abortion. We have to have the worst slate of state legislators in the nation-heck, in the world. So go for it, Lynchburg, more of the crap we have come to expect! I have never registered as a member of a particular political party, preferring to vote for the candidate, not the party, but I can state categorically that I haven't seen anything from a Republican in the last 30 years that would convince me to vote for one of them for dog-catcher. I hope this city can survive them. But why say it, no one's reading this anyway!