Not too hot, but those convectional thunderstorms can bring high winds with them. Dry Bridge Slough had about six families of Ducks cruising the waters -- mostly Mallards.

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
Spitfires of the Spaceways
UPDATED -- Wilma Deering and Dale Arden to the rescue!

Charity Alert: Make a resolution this Summer to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: The Hilton Garden Inn event is finally over -- I was real flustered afterwards and missed an appointment. It could have been worse, but was still pretty bad. I also went over to the Hockaday Museum of Art to check my schedule and was busy for two and a half hours doing other things. I gotta get a day planner and find that PDA I put away.

Media Watch: That opera on local NPR station about those Carmelite nuns being executed during the French Reign of Terror in 1794 was tragic enough for the genre, but the music was far from compelling.


Delacroix's famous Liberty painting -- a metaphor of the French Revolution painted two generations later. I saw it myself in all it's greasy technicolor glory at The Louvre last August. This is a digital reinterpretation, referring to how we remember events in faded colors, with details that are unclear, and contexts which rise from the times when we reminisce.