Showing posts with label rainbow. Show all posts
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Monday, January 21, 2019

Sunny Day Girl by Wayne Newton

I had the singular pleasure of seeing an honest to goodness Wayne Newton Las Vegas show in the early 80s.  And wow, what a spectacular treat.  His opening song was Comin' to America, by Neil Diamond.  As a surly Gen X teen, I tried to resist enjoying the show which was clearly meant for an older crowd and full of loungey songs like Danke Shoen, but you know... Wayne Newton is just so uniquely fancy and unironically amazing.  He won me over by the end.

Here's a link to a quick video I made, where I was putting some finishing touches on my painted 45.  https://youtu.be/Btm3loWBB5c

You can also check out this Sunny Day Girl update on Facebook

Painting this record brought back Vegas memories and gave me reminiscent joy.






Wednesday, November 23, 2016

The Road Not Taken



Exploring my neighborhood.  I found this.
Always nice to find new perspectives to old situations.


We are the village green preservation society

I had an explosion of extra succulent babies this winter.  All the babies had babies.  So now I am painting the cutest little 4” pot s...