one thing today

... with bottle caps - on a juke joint porch after a "freeze out" of vegetable crops. Okeechobee, Florida. 1939.  Marion Post Wolcott.  

  want to write something ... first came up with how beautiful people looked on the street today ... sometimes they don't ... and then sometimes they do ... omg ... thats all for today. 

  This is my latest attempt .... my fav pic of the parental units. It's 40" by 30" - my biggest.  I wish I had been able to capture my dad's vivid handsomeness more. 

  listening to Joel mc crea and fay wray try not to get killed in the ’32 movie The Most Dangerous Game . Painting a 40” by 30” painting of my mom and dad pre marriage. She is washing her hair in a cast iron Bronx kitchen sink and he is looking on. The music in the movie is by Max Steiner. It’s gray and cold out so I don’t feel guilty about being inside. I have a book to read and music to play. It’s a good day.  

  My good friend Arash sent me this greeting ...  Happy Noruz, my friend. The first moment of spring in the Persian New Year: the sun is equally aligned over the Northern and Southern hemispheres and the earth changes its axis to the rebirth of life. May your coming year be full of light and love like the blooming forests, trees, flowers and gardens. Wishing you joy and new beginnings! I remember he once told me he liked this Avedon photo. He said his father used to do that with him. 

I've written about Fox Baby before. I saw him in a shop window in Woodstock and a friend bought him for me. He's been on my kitchen shelf for years and just now I discovered he has the sweetest little wings and tush. Didn't I ever turn him around? It seems impossible.  

Thats what I love about this place. I've been roaming round here my whole adult life and I never noticed until today how the Empire state is so luvaly framed just a smidge south of Sheridan Square.  Amazing that I haven noticed it in a half century. Speaking of  ...   Village Cigars is no longer smoking. OMG more than kinda.