Of lyric joy

The winter beach.

Uninterrupted rapture

Happy birthday Jack.

Lives of nomads

Beautiful suzani tapestries. Read about them here:
www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200304/splendid.suzanis.htm

A la mode

A sketch from the open figure drawing class at UW-Milwaukee.

Succulent

Photographs and a sketch from the Mitchell Park Horticulture Center, more popularly called The Domes.

Garland for the dead

Dried celery that looks convincingly like a rose bud.

Madera

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
--Salvador Dali

Bent and twisted driftwood that looks like it could easily belong in the Salvador Dali painting Soft Construction with Beans.

The best time of the year to look for driftwood is in the spring right after the snow melts. Around here that may be as long as two months away, but it will be worth the wait.