I’ve been into reading lately. On my front porch no less. In the shade after the sun goes behind the house. After my real world work is done. I was running into some creative roadblocks on the music and art front and just needed a break that didn’t involve those things—-along with the internet or TV.
In fact, when TV is watched now, it’s only through hulu or Netflix, which has been very nice. Summer is good for such experiments like this. We only get a short amount of summer around here and even though I have a tough time with the hot weather, I still want to savor it while it’s here. The sunshine is something not to be taken for granted.
Reading has always been very therapeutic and comforting to me. It really forces me to exist in the present moment (and not worry about stupid crap like I tend to do)
I am a big Farley Mowat fan so currently I’m engrossed in No Man’s River.
I like to read his tales outside. It adds to the feeling of what is going on inside the book, since he wrote a lot about the Inuit people and their lives in the wilderness and I am fascinated by how they lived. He’s written many books, but I am trying to not read all at once. This title is proving very good though.
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Today took a beautiful sunny roadtrip out to Platteville WI for a Capitola Review reading/performance. The drive out there was AMAZING. Big skies, big hills, LOTS of green meeting blue & white puffy clouds with sprinkles of red barns here and there. The Driftless Area of WI is just rich. Don’t let anyone tell you different. I know everyone has their connotations about WI, but along with true, they are often not. WI is diverse and beautiful.
No, I didn’t perform today, I was just there to watch and soak it all up. Help when needed. I’ll have my turn to be a part of all this in the fall, and honestly cannot wait.
Today’s reading was housed inside an awesome natural food shop mercantile with the kindest people around. Good crowd. I took pictures with my phone.
Local business at its finest. I have no idea how old this building is, but they have done an amazing job. If you are in the area PLEASE visit The Driftless Market.
While waiting for the show to start, I took a little tour of the store (of course, because I love grocery stores in and of themselves)
Emu meat?! No I didn’t purchase any, but I wanted to. Yum.
What can I say? This is Wisconsin at its finest. CHEESE. LOCAL CHEESE. I was in heaven.
This isn’t just the scene in this venue, this is the scene in a lot of area stores/venues. So cool to see. So cool to hear that currently these places need to restock frequently.
And this is what it is all about folks. Artists, writers, musicians all in one space sharing their craft. A salon of sorts? Such a wonderful thing to experience and witness. Here are some photos.
Had I thought ahead, I would have snapped a shot of the cashier’s desk constructed out of an old door, but hopefully you can see a little bit of the genius-ness of it all from this pix. See the doorknob in the left-hand corner? In all its Alice & Wonderland style? Incredible.
This pix is of a STUFFED OLD COUPLE on the drive home in a grocery store in Spring Green. Don’t you have a stuffed Senior Citizen section at YOUR local grocery store?
I was impressed with the vast array of vintage milk bottles atop the cooler section in this grocery store too. This pix doesn’t do it justice, but it was priceless. The white appearance of the milk were white beads? I will believe that is what it was. Have NO idea what they are made of – though I wonder (?)
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Since June has proven to be almost as cold, gloomy, and disappointing as March was around here, I have been making things in my studio. Cloudy days are great for that sort of thing. Sunny beautiful days prove distracting (creatively). So I am not complaining about the rain and gray as it’s been very useful.
Making visual art has been taking precedence, over recording some of the new tunes I have been working on since May, but I’m going to carve out some time for those ditties soon…
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I was completely struck by the audacity of some people today while doing my outside chores (aka cutting the grass and trying to contain the overgrowth we will call the yard)
First off, though newish and just fine by itself, the lawnmower can sometimes not start and be sort of ahhhhh well, I call it a lot of choice words that I will refrain from using here. Sailor talk.
But after starting and stopping the thing multiple times, making my trips to compost my grass clippings, a fancy couple in a fancy car drive right up to me while I am cutting the grass to ask me directions. Normally I am just fine with this. However, the lady in the car gave me the old look up and down. That pissed me off. And here’s why….
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…what’s around the corner.
A little while ago, a dear & close friend of mine and I started working together musically. We had a productive Thursday night and pulled out all the gear as you will see from the photos below. I took these pics with my phone, so they are not the best quality, but you’ll get the idea. We went through a few covers and even tinkered on a new tune together briefly which is always exciting, new, and fun. We’ll see where it leads.
Right now we are calling ourselves…
How Sweet Is My Valley
…and no, I am not making that up and may very well in fact mean what you think it means. Or not. You decide….
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