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Along with 9 other artists, I will have my sculpture on exhibit at the First Thursday Showroom of the PosterGarden. I will be there from 6 to 9 PM on Thursday, October 4. Hope to see you there!

My garden is on the slightly downside of full. Tomatoes are still coming on, and I have made two great pots of spaghetti sauce…some eaten and some frozen for later use.

Here is a Sunflower that has decided to come up in the last week…a glorious example of Nature’s beauty.

Fall…today we put the canoe (a We-No-Nah kevlar Spirit II) into the Willamette River at Sellwood Park. Here is a photo looking north toward Portland.

And a closer view of Portland…My City!

And the BEST…a special view of one of Nature’s own…a Red Tail Hawk eating a squirrel it had just caught:

From the canoe we were about 20 feet from the Hawk, who was intent upon eating. On the return paddle south, we found this beauty still eating. Can’t say this is the BEST shot of a Red Tail, but have you ever seen a better Red Tail tail shot? We were thankful to have seen nature just being itself.

My friend and colleague, Gary Graves, from our work at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory over a period of over eight years, did an “active” retirement today. The Lab sponsored a retirement party for Gary, and I was privileged to attend.

Gary is a diligent, knowledgeable, insightful, and conscientious provider of technical assistance and other support services to K-12 schools in the Northwest, and I have appreciated the opportunity to work with him over the years.

Here he is…Happy!

Here he is with a long-time co-worker, Felicia:

He is an ardent fly-fisherman, and the cake the Lab provided shows both his Montana roots and his fishing interest.

I wish Gary the BEST in his Retimement

Approximately 200 people came by my exhibit as part of the PosterGarden Showroom group exhibit. This is how I set the work up for the exhibit. You can see sculpture (l to r: Oedipus in Progress; Owl; Homeless [in middle] and Goddess,) prints hanging behind, and two acrylic paintings on the right.

I also have two of my acrylic paintings on view in the PosterGarden Gallery for the month of September. Here I am standing with Bubbletini (left) and View 4.

TO COME…

• an October First Thursday (10/4) Showroom exhibit, and
• a November First Thursday (11/1) opening for a month-long exhibit of my paintings in the Gallery.

Hope to see you there!

I will have several sculpture pieces on view from 6 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 6 at the Poster Garden in Portland, Oregon. They are located at the corner of NW 14th & Irving. I will also have two acrylic paintings in their Gallery for the entire month.