A little late in the day, having wordpress issues!

Photo taken by me, Byron, Illinois 2007

Valley of Fire, Las Vegas, Nevada - 2008, Photo taken by me.

Oh yeah! That is tickets to the Homer and Hopper exhibit at thte Art Institute. So happy I got to check it out before it was gone. I am a huge Hopper fan, and learned a little bit about Homer and he is pretty cool too. I liked some of his quotes! If you are in the Chicago area you should definitely check it out.  Should you not be able to transport yourself across the country or city there is a cool behind the scenes look at Homer that you can check out here on the website.

Yesterday was a pretty productive day for me, one of the first ones in awhile where I was exhausted by bedtime. Well now that I am all filled up on inspiration I have some paintings to start!

Photo taken by me, at the Valley of Fire, Nevada.

After reading this post of on superhero journal , I realized how I rarely take days off of just getting away from technology, tv, computers, and all that stuff. Over the last few days I have been resisting the urge to turn on the tv before bed, and opting to read instead. Which I think has led to some better nights sleep, although I have yet to prove that theory. I have realized that I turn on the tv constantly and always like having it on even if I am not watching it. Like I need background noise to drown out the thoughts in my head. So I have declared Wednesday my day of disconnect. Since I would love to disconnect today but absolutely need to finish some work by Monday I don’t currently have that luxury. So Wednesday it is. I have also planned a trip to the Art Institute that day in hopes of finding some inspiration, as it has been hard to find around here lately.

View from my room in Vegas. Was one hell of a trip. Recap coming soon, I am still recovering from a very long four days, that I was suprisingly sober for most of.

My first trip to Las Vegas and I leave in a few minutes. Sucks that American Airlines had to go and be stupid and cancel our flight yesterday. So now I get to take connecting flights. So annoying, but alas I will get there. Be back next week!

Sorry for the lack of updating around here lately. Last week was nuts. I have a ton of photos and cool things to show you too. So hopefully I can get it all up here this week.

So last weekend we took a trip out the Galena, one of my favorite short trips. A town to visit if you ever are in Northern Illinois. We stayed a place that has log cabins and they are all lined up around a pen where Alpaca are kept. They were very interesting animals, and though they are supposedly scared of dogs they sure were curious and came right up the fence when CJ was out. It was the first trip that we got to take CJ on, and he had a blast. He was able to go off leash on the trails and he loves it, it was probably the first time in awhile that he was actually worn out.

Some highlights from the trip…Alpacas

CJ enjoying himself…

And our cabin…

Check out all the pictures from the weekend here.