Here is a fairly recent collage. I'm getting somewhat caught up on posting new work now, but mainly because I haven't been very pro...

A pretty clump of Western Jack-o-Lantern mushrooms (Omphalotus olivascens) I found yesterday. These are not deadly poisonous, but they are n...

It’s been said that so much of our lives is now documented digitally that we rarely have the opportunity any more to stumble across old let...

Here's a fun idea : Send a copy of the US Constitution to Mr. Trump at the White House or at Mar-a-Lago – or both. You can get cheap pap...

A couple of weeks ago , I posted some images of canned fish containers, noting a much more modern design trend recently than in the past. He...

Anyone who knows me will know that I’m something of a nerd. My interests are many – art, art history, and particularly the history of pigmen...

Here's another recent collage, a very small one. This is Untitled Collage No. 315 (Santa Rosa). June 12, 2025. Acrylic on paper, acrylic...

I saw this security fence in front of a closed shop in San Francisco's Chinatown. Looked like art to me. Unintended art. Serendipitous a...

Over the last couple of days we've had more rain. Checking the rain gauge this morning (November 16), I see 1.75 inches of new rain. Tha...

After seeing the Manet & Morrison show at the Legion of honor earlier this week , I looked into the side gallery on the first floor alwa...

Despite having virtually no wall space left for art , I acquired a piece by Claude Smith yesterday at the Atelier One open studio event in G...

I recently saw ‘Manet & Morisot’ now on at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. I thought it well worth a visit for two main reasons. F...

I attended the Santa Rosa Symphony concert last night (November 8 2025) at the Green Music Center. On the program was Clarice Assad's B...

Winter approaches. Yesterday I picked what will likely be the last of the peppers from the garden this year – shishito, jalapeño, and poblan...

You learn something new every day, they say. It seems to be so. Today I learned that the Japanese bird pictured here, known in Japanese as a...

I picked up The Joy of X (Marriner Books, 2013) at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on my way back to the US after my stay in Japan in September. I...