The first photo is just to take time to update my bio by showing my wife, oldest son and me at a stopover at beautiful Clayton Lake, New Mexico, on the way home from a trip to the east coast earlier this summer.

The seond photo is a T shirt I designed way back in the day for the Dan Emmett Festival in my former hometown of Mount Vernon, Ohio. Dan wrote the song “Dixie” and hails from Mount Vernon and is also buried there. I posted it because I had sent this photo to an old artist friend of mine in Lancaster, Ohio, who sent me a photo of a similar “old timer at a festival” painting he had done recently on commission for some town in Ohio.