oh my cuteness!
One of my funny muses is experiencing the sublime joys of eating purple cabbage. I'd like to say she's laughing, but that would not be truthful. Lulu is merely in between chews.Oh, my cuteness!

rough cover
Rough! Rough-rough! That's me, barking an explanation of the illustration. It's a rough sketch for the cover of Volume One of The Nik Notebooks.But why bark? I'm at the end of H1N1 and it's all about the respiratory system. The bark has stolen my sweet voice and hidden it away somewhere. I'm sure I'll

color palette: bottom shelf
Outside a wind blows, ripping the last ragged colors from our trees, and inside — my refrigerator — on the bottom shelf, fall's perfect palette in the form black dinosaur kale, a green acorn squash flushed with fiery orange, the pale globe of a crisp green cabbage, and the cheery spears of carrots wait to be transformed from cold,

birdsong
I have of late, but wherefor I know not, lost all my mirth.Actually, I do know. Familial collapse and swine flu took all the words from my fingertips.But witness this! Words issue forth!There is hope yet, and mirth will return like birdsong.

color palette: big leaf maple
Now in Discovery Park, the towering big leaf maples are still mostly mantled in green, but some leaves already let go of life, and have fallen to the ground.I pick these up, transfixed by their intricate veins, brilliant with chlorophyll, and the surrounding leaf tissue dying in a yellow haze.G