Category Archives: Cartoons

Celebrating August

Hotter than normal, but breezy compared to DC.  SAM and I celebrated our 3rd (together), or 43rd, (as friends) anniversary, depending on when you start counting.  Town Mountain Road climbs up to the NE into the hills above Asheville.  We enjoyed … Continue reading

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Bele Chere

For over 30 years Ashevile has hosted a weekend-long,  free fesitval of arts, music and food called Bele Chere.  Some locals have come to dislike the intrusion, other make piles of dough, and hundreds of thousands just have a good … Continue reading

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Granola Park

Every day Asheville has a couple of dozen entertainment events and hundreds of other cultural, arts, crafts, spiritual, gastronomic and marketing affairs as well.  Chronicling all this and reporting important regional news for locals and visitors is the popular – … Continue reading

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Summer Begins with Gags and Cocktails

Summer, 2010.  My favorite season – warm sunny days and cool evenings, and as SAM says, “the weird things in my head.”  Thoughts of summers past and the one ahead. Memorial Day for the past twelve years has meant a … Continue reading

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Derivitives Explained?

Nah, not in this space.  These days I’m long on history, and short on auto-painting. Here’s a summary since my last post: my sons each celebrated birthdays – 26 and 28, so we enjoyed two catch-up dinners and jokes about … Continue reading

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Dirty Snow, Seafood and Orca’s

Those in the northeast US are understandably tired of winter and the snow storms.  SAM and I arrived to find the remains of snowzilla – the 3rd megablizzard this year – now just dirty snow piled in parking lots.  It’s … Continue reading

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Dixie Wildwood, Chapter 4.

Blair and Peyton have been cross-species partners for a very long time.  Despite, or maybe because of, their differences they always had something to discuss evenings over a few glasses of may apple wine.  Blair is famous in the wildwood … Continue reading

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Dixie Wildwood, Chapter 3

Sy Otter was always a procrastinator.  “I’m a perfectionist!” he would always say.  Nevertheless he was always late or incomplete – unless it was something fun.  Sy was the most handsome water mammal in the wildwood.  The beavers and the … Continue reading

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Dixie Wildwood, Chapter 2

Early the next morning, everyone in the wildwood could hear Dakota barking. He’d heard a noise outside the crazy woman’s cabin.  Sure, he knew it was probably nothing but at least everyone would know this dog was alert and on … Continue reading

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Climate Change? (Time to head to Key West?)

This illo for a report cover was commissioned but then “not used.” It was still fun to do.  The recent United Nations Conference in Copenhagen ended on a somewhat optimistic note when the five countries above – dubbed the Copenhagen … Continue reading

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