Thomas Hart Benton

If I could paint and if I could see color I would aspire to paint like Thomas Hart Benton did. I really enjoy his work.

This is a detail from a painting he did of his son and his son's dog Jake. Words fail me.

But lacking any literary or artistic ability I take pictures of my dogs:

Those are my dogs being goofballs in the grapevine.

I am grateful for all I have.

I am detecting a subtle trend here...

I hurried to mow my lawn this afternoon in advance of the forecast thunderstorm and when I came inside and dialed up Lem's I saw several posts and comments about how marvelous bluegrass music is. I concur, as do Finns. What next, Kanye gonna say "Ima let you Finnish"? In this crazy mixed up, muddled up world anything is possible, right?

Here is an artist's rendition of me mowing:

Fortunately a video was recorded as I pulled into today's jam session:

We hope to avoid being hit by lightning.