Molly Goatwax

Pale pink velvety leaves

Dear friends, does anyone know what kind of plant this is? It was outside one of the greenhouses at Cylburn Arboretum, under a sign written on the foggy glass; "free plants". Being a Sunday, there were no botanists on hand to ask.

The Creative Process

Currently a painting about grape jelly on toast is developing, but I'm not sure about the flying in the sky part for this one. Perhaps it will be depicted against a patterned wall.

The Big Apple

This fruity device has included an ICloud account with the last update/sync. But all my music is gone. Harrumph...

Soap in art

Now that I'm employed, I've upgraded the family soap from the kind that costs 1.69/three to various bars for under five dollars. I've been buying them for the smell but a couple of them had questionable chemicals in them so I continue to look for an acceptable brand that won't break the bank. Meanwhile, the bars I won't wash with yet are perfuming various cubbies and drawers. Then I stuck a cake of Yardley's lavendar in a clock I made from a cigar box and caught a whiff of an idea.... 

Downtown

Some one bought the venerable old Junker Hotel and renamed it the Envy. From the archives of the Baltimore Sun; "The Hotel Junker, which was a favorite of Baltimore reporters in the early part of the century, was one of the first downtown buildings to be built after the 1904 fire that destroyed much of downtown Baltimore." The odd part is, is that Best Western has a few properties named "Envoy". 

News

Hey I got a job.