getting back

A grocery store bouquet

in a blender

with a votive lit by the sun.

Everything looks so good in Hawaii,
 it's difficult getting back.

So much beauty challenges perception...

Sad to say, I'm afraid
 the Queen did not protesteth nearly enough.

Like... light your hair on fire, girl!

You can tell I'm not quite
all the way back yet.

next

So, what's next?

Hardly ever what you expect.

See, the details change.

Like the cataracts I didn't know I had.

Now I can't see the details at all.

Sht.

See?

But they do explain all the fits and starts
I've had in the studio in the last few months.
Actually, this might not be a totally bad thing...

Now I can't get fussy with my painting.

Definitely a plus.

For instance, now fussy and fuzzy look about the same.

I'm tellin' ya, this could be good.

So I'm doing what any mature adult would do.
I'm running away.
Ima goin to Oahu,
back to the North Shore.

When I get back from Hawaii at the end of the month,

I can just have them removed

maybe get some vision correction done at the same time.

Probably a plus.

Gulp.

Do I sound casual?

Are the drugs working?

hot n cold

Climate shock.

When we left Honolulu yesterday,

 Hawaii was, well, Hawaii.

Beautiful, benign and balmy.

By the time the plane landed,

 Denver was buried by the biggest February snow in history.

First you play, and then you pay.

Mother Nature is a twisted sister.

tropic topic

I'm signing up for a Google app which will make it possible to post on samartdog from my iPhone. Could be useful when we're in Hawaii. Or anywhere! We'll see...

waiting

While you're waiting for me to post another painting,

I've been painting it. 

I've been taking Wolf Kahn's advice;

paint a landscape because
no one will say you're crazy if you put three legs on it.

Needless to say, I'm paraphrasing,
but not by much; it's close to a quote.
 He also says painting landscape gives us permission
to be free, to make a mess.
I'm taking him at his word.

I've also been waiting, waiting to go back to Hawaii.
In two weeks.
Yahoo!
Here's an iPhone daydream.

leaving honolulu

Hawaii is so gorgeous, right up to the very last minute.

P.S. I assume everyone who posts pastels knows that the colors are so much more vibrant than they ever appear on a blog. Argh!