Quiet

I am going to take a blogging break for a couple more days. Head cold. Head cold and thinking, not so much.

My Tidy Cat

I digress today. Lu woke me up at 3:30 this morning trilling a happy long loud trill. To my ears, the proud trilling sounded like trouble. I got up, followed Lu to the kitchen and this is what had her so darn pleased with herself: 

Yes I lock the trash cabinet, Lu works the lock off the knobs. And yes Lu can get things out without tipping the trash can over. Lu loves shredding, especially shredding onto the dog's blanket. Freaks Rosie out. Rose would not come into the kitchen until I cleaned it up. You can not tell me that Lu doesn't think this is all funny.

The Colors of Familiar

"House and Barns", detail, Andy Newman, oil,  5"x 9"

It is commonly thought that we Americans always want the next new, new thing. From the flood I am learning a different lesson. While I might want the one new thing, many, many new things at once downright perplex me.

The celebration of backbone is central to my long standing connection to Andy Newman’s work. Andy isn’t interested in the new thing. Andy is interested in the long term relationship, specifically the long term relationship between a building and the landscape. Andy paints and reveres change and stability of some of our best old barns. The barns, like this historic Village, withstand.

Pratical Magic

This morning the lake was inky black and the sky fully grey, as if the world was monochromatic. Today at work I am fussing with the gallery’s technology. In theory, it all seemed like a good idea to go for the newest technology than to recreate my old systems. All my equipment needed to be replaced, computer, printer, credit card processor, stereo (yes I still had a music system) and phone. Router. Now everything is new and differently wired but my brain is not. Case in point, I have this little flat 1” square thing that I plug into an ipad to swipe credit cards. Receipts are emailed to customers. Hmmm. I  just took a picture of the 'Square' from my iPad, emailed it to me and loaded it onto this blog.

First a flood, now magic tricks.

Merry Christmas

Early this morning, Tree with Halloween lights

end of day today

The new digs

Got the keys yesterday morning!