I am not really sure where I am but it is in Pennsylvania and we are about half n hour from Philadelphia. We are staying two days to catch up with ourselves and plan a second half our trip.

Kinda sounds like my life but I am on my final third, the second half is long gone.

The sky is presenting a perfect Ganz field; the speckless middle blue sky flattens itself against the leafy edges of the trees and seems to be on the same plane.

It is sunny and 73 in Westchester, Pa. It feels good to hang out in the shade and watch the leaves turn colors. The smoke from over a neighbor’s campfire rises straight up. Dead calm and beautiful.  The low angle of late afternoon light mixes with the green grass and gives up and honest chartreuse. I love this color and use it a lot in my sculpture.

Notes on RV travel: The 1999 Fleetwood Tioga has been very good to us. I have a relationship with objects so it is very easy for me to thank our rolling home. It has treated us very well and we appreciate it. It is also good to know that the person who sold us the RV was honest.

Things to know if you ever take a trip like this:

Open the refrigerator very slowly after driving.

Have a roll of VHB double stick tape, 2” gaffer’s tape or Visquine tape and scotch tape. Blue painters tape is also good.

A transparent elbow for your black water tank. This is not simply to watch the toilet fish swim out of your tank but it does lets you know when your tank is completely empty and if anything may be stuck?

Always empty your black water tank first so your grey water flushes your hose.

Attempt to control your environment or it will quickly consume you.

Get Zen and try to be in touch with the exterior space that you are occupying. Trees are not always your friends!

Your Rv will become your home.

Tomorrow the other ocean

I am liking this.

PS.

Ganz Field: This is the physics illusion the LA artist Doug Wheeler first put into sculptural form over 35 years ago. It was wheelers work that introduced Jim Turell to the Ganz field and he ran with it. I am always amazed at how one idea can carry some artists so long? But that is another story completely.

Next to our campsite was the very rare and exotic -Shrubus Andreanocus