it was beautiful weekend...

. . . it started with this....

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. Mark Twain

me and mr. mark gonzales

1998

have a good weekend........

= inspiration =

my friend ralph painted this a
million years ago out in vallejo
for ted phelps.

..finished up a couple of tanks.

a good quote from -cannery row-.......

....

.... oakland cruise night...

douglas ogden sends these
shots from one of the cruise
nights.

-hobo nickels-

The sudden scarcity of jobs in the early 1930s forced a huge number of men to hit the road. Certainly some coins were carved to fill the idle hours. More importantly, a ‘knight of the road,’ with no regular source of income, could take one of these plentiful coins and turn it into a folk art piece, which could in turn be sold or traded for small favors such as a meal or shelter for a night.

....go fly a kite....

we had a kite but
had no wind.

yes i know it's rainbow...

found this in the mailslot.......

butt to butt in Az.

finally Brad...let's do this!

where have all the good-times gone?

just finished this 38 knuckle