My Darlings in Buffalo

With Matt at Canalside - BOATS!

Gorgeous, delicious Matt-made meals (Japanese and Korean cuisine).

 

 

The new apartment on Richmond Ave. / The historic Hotel Lenox (my second stay there).

 

That face!

 

 

Public Art in Delaware Park, site of the 1901 Pan Am Exposition.

 

Two views of the walk on Bird Island Pier, Broderick Park.

 

Swallowtail Caterpillars on Kimber's dill.

 

 

The lovely couple, Kimber Streams and Matt Aytch Taylor. Ice cream is dangerous.

 

Art, Des Moines, Summer 2021

Des Moines Mural (below).

Wearing Haring in the Pappajohn Sculpture Park.

Des Moines Art Center (DMAC): Robert Arneson, Impression of the Artist as an Incorporeal Witness to the Center of the Universe

 

 DMAC: James Gobel, The Problem of Leisure, What to Do for Pleasure, felt, yarn, and acrylic on canvas, 2011.

DMAC: Theaster Gates, Vessel #19, high-fired stoneware with artist pedestal, 2020.

 DMAC: Cara Romero, Evolvers, archival pigment print, 2019.

An Opera Weekend, DMMO

 

 

Des Moines Metro Opera's 49th Season, mid-July 2021. A collage of each of four opera experiences. Clockwise from upper left: Jean Philippe Rameau's Platee; Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades: and Gregory Spear's Fellow Travelers. All wonderful, but standouts to me were the Rameau (DMMO's first foray into French Baroque) and the Spears (the lavender scare meets the music of the medieval troubadours).

 

 

The Fellow Travelers creative team's talkback on July 17. Center is the author on whose book the production is based, Thomas Mallon.

In the Iowa Prairie

July 2021

Selfie with Mark (Ace) in the Darryl Smith Prairie, Cedar Falls, IA

Tattered Monarch on Adams St., Waterloo.

 

Swallowtail on the Bee Balm.

 One of hundreds of iridescent damselflies.

Early Summer Events

Matt Aytch Taylor visits the Titanic Museum (at Pigeon Forge no less). He holds the recently published History Smashers book he illustrated!

Mark (Ace) at the Ragged Edge Gallery & Bar, Cedar Falls, IA. Terrific cocktails, terrific company.

Clans Taylor (TN) and McCusker (IA).

 

Tuesday Talk with Leslie Prideaux

 

Check out my interview with Leslie Prideaux of the UNI Alumni Association, a Tuesday Talk dropped just today, June 15, 2021. It was a lovely conversation and another great opportunity to show off the UNI Permanent Art Collection.

Tuesday Talk

Weekend Explorations - County Parks

Mark (Ace) standing on Tommy Reife's Nest at the park in North Cedar.

 

 

 The steel bridge at Thunder Woman County Park, Janesville, IA

Dangling on a downed silver maple over the Cedar River in Thunder Woman County Park.