I’ve only experimented with time travel twice, and in both cases I ran into problems. Fortunately, in both cases, I carried an undo button with me. See my original Marination Challenge post here. I…

For this post I got to spend some lagniappe time with Albert Rouzie, another local guitarist-performer also on stage the night of 5/22/2025 at the Bob Dylan tribute show at Casa Nueva in Athens, Ohio. He performed: Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) Man In The Long Black Coat Highway 61 Revisited (Mason-harp) Blind Willie McTell (Todd-harp) The program, organized by Steve Zarate, went kinda like this:

OK, so I got to spend some lagniappe time with Mason Alexander Ault, who performed the following at the 5/22/2025 Bob Dylan tribute show: It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry To Ramona It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) Just Like A Woman Also performing were the following: Bob Stewart I Pity The Poor Immigrant…

Generally, we’re encouraged to “let go.” It’s hard to do; and, it’s particularly hard let go of my experience of the 5/22/2025 Bob Dylan tribute show at Casa Nueva, Athens, Ohio, organized by Steve Zarate. So I plan to spend a little, what I’m now calling “lagniappe time” with each of the performers - like I did here with Caitlin Kraus.

"Before you answer..." was selected as part of Calm or Chaos, an online gallery exhibit sponsored by the Cape Cod Art Center and the National Association of Digital Artists Click here to view the exhibit or take the tour. Click here to view the exhibition catalog.

On Sunday, March 23, 2025 at Eclipse Company Store in The Plains, Ohio I finally got to see Take 2 . . . over a delicious Peanut Butter Porter from the Saugatuck Brewing Co.. Band members include: Jeff Carr, guitar and vocals, Scott Schell, harmonica and vocals, Ken Dean, percussion and vocals, and Mike Sisson, bass and no vocals. A wonderful night of blues, contemporary folk, Americana .

Airplane art at 30,000 ft.

The Ponce Inlet Lighthouse, aka Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse is located a short distance from Lighthouse Ice Cream. Technical: I made this freehand iPad painting using a photo that Annyth took as a reference using the Sketch Club app for drawing and painting and iColorama for final tweaking.

I’ve been intrigued by accordionist Vincent Peirani for quite a while now. Here’s a quick digital painting of a screen shot that I used as a reference. Technicals: Sketch Club app, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, iColorama

All joking aside, I’m pleased to share the following from the National Association of Digital Artists (naDA):

I had 15 minutes to kill before Spanish Conversation Hour at the Athens Public Library yesterday, and I wanted to play around with one of my favorite painting styles, Impressionism. So I Googled Impressionism and portraits, and I found the AI-generated image below my freehand rendering, which I decided to use as a reference on a digital iPad painting…just for fun.

According to O'Betty's website, the eatery is located in the Cameron building, the smallest building in Uptown Athens. Originally built as a barber shop, the venue has been the home of other restaurants, such as Seven Sauces, The Strawberry Patch, The Korean Restaurant, DV8, The Redbud Cafe, and finally and lastly, O'Betty's. I fondly remember Redbud Cafe; but, whenever I bite into one of O’Betty’s delicious hot dogs, I’m overcome with amnesia and euphoria.

Annyth and I joined our dear friends Darcy and Chris to ring in the new year at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis, MN with Davina and the Vagabonds, a jazz blues band funded in 2004 by front-woman Davina Sowers. We fell in love with the group, especially Davina. By the way the Dakota handed out little bells, so we actually did ring in the new year!

As you well know, we here at portfoliolongo.com have a holiday tradition that goes back all the way to 2013, yes, our Annual Christmas Letter! (Please continue reading below.) At our annual retreat in early December the Board of Directors and Senior Management - both of us - meet and, after a self-facilitated process that incorporated large sheets of adhesive, butcher-block paper and color-coded stickies, decided ultimately that the 2024 letter would be A, mainly because of our new facility in Canaan Township, Athens County, Ohio. Please click here to view posts previous years’ letters.

Several years ago I saw an awesome photo on Flickr taken by David Wilson, I believe in 1969, of one of the old buses that I would see almost every day of my childhood growing up in Canonsburg, PA. Click here to see that photo. I’d been so taken by that photo that I decided to use it as a reference for a freehand, digital painting on my iPad Pro in the Sketch Club app.

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“Impermanent record,” occurred to me as a vague notion. When I mentioned it to Annyth, she suggested that I do a cartoon, and the notion remained a velleity until now. The title of this…