The Underground Theater Goes Dark

Tonight I saw a play--for the last time I'll ever be able to--at the Underground Theater, the community theater at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta. After forty-four seasons--their first production was when I was only three!--they're retiring. They went out with a wonderful production of Mary Chase's HARVEY, one of my favorite plays. It was only the eleventh production I've ever seen there, in the thirty years since I first saw 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD there (starring my high school English teacher, RoseMarie Mason); I'm sorry I didn't manage to see more of their plays, and really sorry there won't be any further opportunities to see more.

More Digital Paintings

I'm continuing to refine my photograph-to-digital-painting skills. Here are three of my best recent efforts, all taken from photographs I made in the last five years:

Faux Watercolor

Yesterday and today I went on a solo road trip up (and then back down) U.S. 441 through North Georgia, the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, and Sevierville, TN. I took lots of pictures, but the one I like the most is the one below, which I've done a lot of processing in Photoshop Elements and Picasa to make it into what I intended to be an Edward Hopperesque watercolor:

Panola Mountain State Park

This afternoon we went to Panola Mountain State Park for a hike. It was a beautiful day and Panola is a great park, though the girls did insist we stop about every thirty-five feet for Cheetos, so it wasn't really much of  hike. Still, we'll probably go back someday soon.