Back From Visiting My Daughters

I've been away from the blog for the last few weeks because I was on a trip out to Wyoming and Wisconsin to visit our two daughters and their families.

Isabel lives in Wyoming, where she runs her business, Isabel Jewelry, which exists both online and as a storefront in Pindedale, WY.

And Georgia is in Wisconsin, running her business Georgia Rucker Design, where she's mostly designing books these days.

Here's a picture of Isabel with an acetylene torch at her workbench. She's accumulated an amazing amount of tools and know-how over the years.

It's sort of alchemical, the way she turns bits of stone and metal into adornment. I've always loved cluttered workbenches.

I didn't get any pictures of Georgia at work because mostly we were at her house with her husband, kids, and the kids' toys. Like these two dolls. Georgia's daughter actually got me to start enjoying the music of Taylor Swift! I gave Georgia's son that "Cow and UFO" painting I was talking about in the previous blog post. He likes it.

This is a cool picture of a reflection in the Santa Cruz Harbor. I think I'll do a painting from this.

Now that I'm back in California, I've been putting together the next issue of my webzine FLURB. It's a doozy. I'll be rolling out the issue sometime in the next few days, and I'll do a special post announcing that.