Pen and Ink Series #34: Irritated Point, LA, 2025

A couple of posts ago, I addressed the concept of a visual language, and placed pictograms (anthropomorphized alphabetic letters) in a pattern.  However, this missed the mark: my pattern is sequential.  In a visual language all symbols are presented simultaneously without obvious relationships among elements. I am still trying to gather more information about visual […]

Walking the Line

Friday, the day I was supposed to go fishing, I got up early, prepared breakfast, and my coffee and was half-way done before I got the text that we wouldn’t be going, on account of bad weather.  I don’t know about you, but I just can’t go back to bed with a stomach full of […]

Arthur’s Roots

I feel really bad for Arthur. He was doing so well. But his roots were getting dense and started to curl around; he looked crowded, even though he was getting another sprouting of leaves. Arthur is my pet avocado tree that I started on top of a Mason jar. The other day I decided it was […]