A Day and a Passing

I promised last time I'd get a better photo of Give or Take a Penny. Here it be in all its glory. And here are some detail photos, too.

I keep trying to make it to the studio more than two days a week, but things keep coming up. This Wednesday I could only stop in for a few minutes to drop off the new panels I'd made; after that I had to go down to the wake for Ray Ashley. I didn't know Ray very well -- he was more of an acquaintance, really -- but his good friend Joe D'Andrea is my good friend, and I used to go down to see them play in the various incarnations of their bands over the years, including Three Hour Detour. That last band -- Ray, Joe, and Helene Zisook -- put together a CD, and one of the songs on there, "Nhema Musasa", is really great and has been in my permanent MP3 rotation since, well, I've had an MP3 rotation to put it in.

It's really lousy that Ray is gone. He was a great guy, very smart, very talented, and I'm sad to see him go.

Anyway, he said, drying his eyes, and moving on. I did finally make it to the studio today. I need to get done whatever I can while I can, right? Make the most of our time together? So I got a painting and a half done. I'm uncertain about them. Not sure if they're done. The second one certainly not, but the first...we'll see.