Random Photo from the Past: Black Squirrel

One of my favorite things about Bowling Green, OH was the black squirrel. At a certain point I decided to photograph a black squirrel. They must be shy around cameras because this is the best I could do. Also for the first couple years there weren't any hanging out in my yard. So here's this guy hurrying off to do some squirrelly thing. Those are my flowers, pretty rocking awesome if I do say so myself. Man, I miss having a yard.

Random Photo from the Past: Paint Jobs

I rarely paint from old photos because it's too easy to become nostalgic. I'm having the same issues with my Random Photo series but I'm going to persevere and see if I can get past the nostalgic pitfalls. This image cracks me up. That wall stayed that way for at least a year, maybe two. And by "that way" I mean with red paint unevenly applied three quarters of the way up. (That was as far as I could reach on the ladder.) I think we finally painted it a solid color when we were trying to sell it but I can't remember what color it ended up. The paintings were done in Denmark in 2004 when we went to stay at a friend's house for a month. We drove all around Sweden, Norway, Germany and Denmark on that trip. I was hugely influenced by the amazing textures and colors, especially on the island of Mon, Denmark, where we stayed.