I know you don't I?

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drives

 you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

-Cormac McCarthy

ink+collage   rives bfk 11x15

ink rives bfk 11x15

talent and artist

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent.  

The talent used the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.  -Robert Brault

ink  bfk rives 11x15

ink bfk rives 11x15

plain jane

Yes we're the Beavers of the Brain,

Just as busy as you please

Though we're frequently reported

To behave like lit-tle bees  

-Thomas Pynchon

watercolor+dye  bfk rives 11x15

ink  bfk rives 11x15

little things

Enjoy the little things

for one day you may look back

and realize

they were the big things.  -Robert Brault

ink + dye  bfk rives 11x15

ink dye watercolor  bfk rives 11x15

where has he been?

What has he been doing? where has he been?

he give up on art man? no, he's just been kinda busy.

Going to see his son play...

and working in the garden cleaning up the plants he put in several years ago

and weeding, trimming small trees...

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.  If it comes out of the ground easily it is a valuable plant.  -Karel Capek

Let no one think gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation.  It is an

insatiable occupation like anything else to which a man gives his heart. -Karel Capek

planting clematis, flowers, transplanting viburnums and hydrangeas ...

and digging digging digging...

making a path.

moving dozens of plants

It is utterly forbidden to be half hearted about gardening.  You have to love it whether 

you like it or not. -Karel Capek