Iowa Irish Fest 2019

Iowa Irish Fest 2019.

 Me, Bev, Mark (Ace).

Just a fairy of the Aos Sí (leprechaun).

I was one of the jurors for the VIP tent this year.

This is my reward.

Annual Trip to Des Moines

 Queer Abstractions at the Des Moines Art Center.

The 47th Season of the Des Moines Metro Opera (with a teaser for the 48th).

The Fountains of Des Moines.

Nashville Art 2019 (Kahlo, Rivera, Williams)

 Diego on My Mind (Self-Portrait as Tehuana), Frida Kahlo, 1943. On view at the Frist Art Museum, June 2019.

Last Hour, Diego Rivera, 1915. Also on view at the Frist.

Collage of me and my mother at the Frist Art Museum exhibition titled Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism.

Kahlo clothing.

Public art by Herb Williams titled Sky Lake, 2018, which is located at the new Smith Springs Community Center, southeast Nashville.

40th High School Reunion

Class of 1979, McGavock High Shool, Nashville, TN.

Here are some of my oldest and dearest buddies.

Lakeview Elementary! Some of us span the ages.

Photo Collages, Summer 2019

Home on Adams (Solomon's Seal and Trillium).

Prairie Restoration at Big Woods Lake (Prairie Rose and Vetch).

Irises (early June).

Flares

Flare 1 - June 2019.

Comet from the "Book of Miracles," 1531.

Flare 2 - June 2019.

Neverending exhaustion

This is my state of being every day I wake up. I can't shake off the exhaustion. The last few weeks have been a series of depleting, dispiriting episodes. Not all of it but enough. I hope to get on my emotional "feet" soon. In the meantime... mending.