The questions are simple, the answers are not

What if you knew you wouldn't get caught, would you?

What if you loved someone who couldn't love you back, would you still love them?

What if the love of your life was happier without you, would you be happy for them? would you have the strength to move on as well?

What if you had a chance to make a a difference in a strangers life, would you? could you?

What if you only had a year to live, would you live your life differently? and if you would, why aren't you living that life now?

What if you had just one chance to go back and do a 'do over', would you? What would it be?

What if the thing(s) that you loved the most, were gone from your life, what would you do?

What if you had something serious on your mind, and walked into a field of beautiful flowers, could you stop and enjoy the moment of beauty?

Cedric, Senior

Introducing Cedric , Sr.....I want one of these!

A t ypical English dinner

My friends here in Huntsville, Bill and Joyce B, invited me to the house for a 'typical' English dinner...and what an experience ! Meat, roasted potatoes, mashed turnips and carrots and in the back there, mushed peas! and oh yes, Yorkshire pudding, everything served with gravy.

And I must say, i enjoyed every morsel of it , plus the fact that I know Joyce busted butt to fix it for me and to showcase her native country's cuisine.


My plate...just before I was about to dig in...bon Appetite!

PS - the one thing i forgot to capture was desert, and I can't pronounce it much less know how to spell it.

back to VA tomorrow and hopefully able to post some of the drawings I did while on travel

Food from the road

It's true that when you travel you always end up eating too much or eating fast food crap. Wake up, dress, hotel breakfast, meetings, lunch usually at fast food or sit down place, meetings, big meal or fast food...urg...

so last night in the big meal category, me and my colleagues went to a great little place called Paulis....steak and game and wonderful wine and escargot ! I forgot to take pix of the escargot but you get the idea of the steak, scallops and tuna we all had.

My Cowboy steak...yum yum
Ted Z's Tuna, what a presentation of food
Ryan , shown here and my govie Thadd , had the scallops....needless to say the plates were all pretty clean when we were all done

Art class nude

this is just a 20 min pose. the 1 hr pose is too big for my ity bity scanner

well for the second time, i attended my open life drawing class. this time, with a wee bit of experience under my belt i started drawing like a pro, warming up with the one minute poses, concentrating on parts that i have trouble with, etc. I wanted to scan the 1 hour pose, which is the same from week to week to give the painters in the group a continuous pose to keep working on. but i started from scratch again, and had a plan to rough out the whole body, working on all the proportions, so i didn;t draw a mis shapened dwarf again, and then work on the detail. HA - the parts I got right fixed the previous drawing errors, but I made new ones.....so i went and bought some new pencils and charcols. that should make me sketch better, don't ya think?

What if....musings while sketching -art class

1 min pose sketch....enhanced a bit with a little Photoshop.


"Musings while living"

What if you had a cell phone and it never rang?
What if you landed at a familiar airport, but nobody was there to greet you?
What if you had something important to say, would anyone listen?
What if your friends can't confide their fears and joys to you, would you still confide yours?
What if the hole in your heart never healed, could you try love again?
What if you let hurt overcome emotion, would you still hang on to hurt?
What if you are ready to face your demons, but they left town?
What if hurts never healed?
What if living in the past means your present has not significance?
What if you gave a party , and no one came?
What if you went to a party and you were the only one who came?
What if the parent now has now to become the child?
What if all the conversations you had with people from now on were doomed to be only superficial?
What if you tried to have a heavy conversation, but found you knowledge superficial?
What if you never 'got' poetry, would you still read it?
What if good is not good enough?
What if you did the right thing all your life, but found out it really wasn't right?
What if you realized you took a wrong turn in life, would you fix it?


"my love where ever I go, I take you with me..." Melissa Etheridge

Obama equals Dewey ?

and now an un-paid political announcement - your vote does count

Help, I've fallen and i can't get up!

The desk bunny is drunk with power, no wait, sleeping? no wait, i got it...eye problem - just can't see staying at work !