travel - fort kent, maine

a panoramic shot taken by Connie Michaud last summer

other voices - J. Donatella

travel - paris recollections

collage from my sketchbook during a tour of Paris
sketch of the Bateaux Parisians, the tour boats that paddle tourists up and down the River Seine; some actually provide a very tasty cuisine

fitful online wanderings

 • At A Poor Wayfaring Stranger photos of BP Oil's contribution to the Gulf of Mexico's environmental culture.
 • Tim Herrick's strange meanderings around Jersey City
 • Wood's Lot goes a-traveling.
 • Digby, at Hullabaloo wonders why folks get upset at Helen Thomas but not at the wing-nut xenophobic governor of Arizona.
 • Jim Gottstein continues to crusade against forced psychiatric confinement. More people should look into this effort, especially folks who don't have much to do with the industry known as "The Mental Health System"
 • "The Ahnold" thinks now is a good time to beg the federal government for money for high speed rail transport in California.

 • until next time th-th-that's All Folks!

artists - The Judgement of Paris

Monet in Babcock State Forest
I've been listening to a "books on tape" about mid-nineteenth century France. While it is in large measure about the struggles faced by the artists (such as Monet) known as the Impressionists, it is also a great sweeping history lesson about the time.

A 13 CD set entitled: The Judgment of Paris, by Ross King. It's available at Amazon.com for $28 [usd] but I got it for 3 bucks at an Ocean State Job Lot remainders bin.

travel - Montreal again. Here are some photos:

The first two: The Blessed Virgin of Graffiti and VOyONS! eyewear. The remaining photos are: interior of a fountain at Place des Arts; men hanging out in front of the old KOK nightclub on Rue Ste-Catherine est; window displays found on Rue Ontario (JFK, the Pope) and Rue Amherst (Chanel shoes); at Chipotle & Jalapeno, a Mexican restaurant on Rue Amherst; and Old Montreal - the dome is Marche Boncoeurs.

exhibitions

Recently I've had chances to exhibit my art work more frequently; New Britain Art League, the East Haddam Artists show. I hope to be able to show in more locations in the future. Coming up:

 • Berkshire Artists Colony
   107 Main Street, North Adams, MA

The photo is from an exhibit in North Adams last autumn.

getting started anew

It has been awhile since I posted anything at Short Notes.

I was, in part, frustrated with the appearance of the site - yet reluctant to mess with the format; in part, so many other things were going on I didn't know where to start making comment.

So I have come to a compromise with myself. I am saving the old posts at the original Short Notes site (together with the chaotic list of oddly categorized links) but shall resume posting here using this newly formatted template. To those who still look in on me, I hope you appreciate the cleaner appearance.