The sky looks bruised, and it exhales like an old leaky basement in January, musty, frigid, damp. Black, grey, blue with hints of purple and azure underneath, the somber October sky is set upon a carnival stage of reds, yellows, oranges. Sun breaks thru scattered, as if shot thru a prism – will the sky [...]
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The Retreat – Literally and Figuratively One cool but sunny May day in 2009, 3 sane adults well over 21 did this really crazy thing…. we packed a couple suitcases, loaded up 4 dogs, 9 cats, and 16 turtles and drove to Arkansas – the corner better known as “The Ozarks”. When we got there [...]
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Remember those silhouettes cut from black paper? 2 minutes of flashing scissors and a profile emerged in black on white. Barely a tick on the clock and some unwanted scraps discarded and the outlines of a moment remained, preserved forever. Well the idea for Sketches From Sky Ridge came out of a suggestion that we [...]
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