Very much a quiet day here ... waiting for more rain ... eating mushroom pizza again... and watching The Shining ... a movie I have never seen. Playing with images from last week ... like the one above taken with the A80 at Pardon Grey Trust which is a variant on an earlier digital toy shot of the same place. Painting ... haven't done much painting recently but Mina and I were talking about it last night while we were hanging out sipping more of that Sutter Home White Zinfandel in mini-bottles in the parking lot of Logan Express waiting to pick up April who had just spent a week in Ireland ... so I decided to pull out the brushes and oils to see what would happen ... zinnias ... that's what happened ... interesting ... might be something here I can work with. Now I'm seriously thinking about a trip to Clements for soap and scented candles because suddenly I remember one really good reason why I haven't been painting .... it's call Turpenoid and don't believe the folks at Dick Blick when they say it "has the same properties as mineral spirits without the characteristically strong odor".