Bullhorn Twotails

T'was a good friend ov' mine, BlT.

Captured on screen... some Lizard love-

Lizard Play

They meet every day at 4:19 on either side of my patio screen.

Like the lovers in Bowie's 'Heroes'; uniting through the Berlin Wall,

 there, where it once stood.

LA Famiglia

...met this family on my last visit to L.A.

Spiny Orb Morning

I was greeted by three Spiny Orb Spiders this morning, all content in their webs.

Their masked backs looked down unthreatened.

Cast of a Thousand

Thousand Oaks, California, Summer of '72... ahhh, the smell of sage in the morning.
A rehearsal break outside our Ol' T.O. studio, tuning up for a 'Prog Fest' tour in Waterloo, Belgium n' Amsterdam, Holland with Focus.

Cast from left to right: Wally Stoltze (on keyboards n' sake), Steve Stewart (lead vocals, guitar n' flute),
Jim Rolfe (lead guitar n' mellotron) Keith Heins (drums n' laughs), Me (with a head of hair on bass n' beans), Jerry McMillan (vocals n' percussion).
COAT evolved from 'Treeherder' Jerry McMillan's T.O. bands, Children of the Mushroom adding Jim and later forming 'Lady' with Wally.
                                                                   'Those were the Days, yes they were...'

Pictures of the Past...

...change their meaning fast.

                                                                                 Goat and Sunrise

One of my first oil paintings, circa '76, inspired by my surroundings (light and music) at the time.
My hometown, Santa Barbara from its mountain ridge looking east,
a sunrise on the Pacific Coast.

A gift returned.

Lago di Garda

 Oil paintings of Lago di Garda covered the walls of my Family's living room.

This one of a castle intrigued me as a child, a sunset on the lake of Garda.

Later I discovered that this was my Grandmother's home town, Malcesine.

One of the most beautiful places I've ever visited.

I saw a performance there in the castle walls after a sunset, candles lit the wooden masked actors.

Nipoti e Nonni laughed and applauded... I thought of mia Nonna.

Nonna 1924