Water, wilderness, wildlife, tomato soup & art!

Just returned from a much needed camping break...no business talk, no cell/computer and no DRUM! Yea, that's right, no drumming for 3 days. It's okay, I'm still a drummer! Only water: the falls, kayaking daytime and in the dark...yep, errie and very cool...wilderness: short hikes, vegging in the boat and hanging at site....wildlife: hmm, an eagle, hawks, chipmunks, red squirrel, ducks, and our friendly skunk just checking out the campsite while we were sitting by the fire. I did save a few caterpillars who were stupid and thought my boat, the truck and the table were nice places to be. Tomato soup and grill cheese: YES I can cook and that is all I'm saying!

Now the art part. My "plan" was to rest, no serious activity what-so-ever...well, coffee fixed that plan. One morning after a nice tall mug of coffee with hazelnut creamer, I decided to burn ALL the fricken burdock on the campsite. It's a useless, ugly, huge, pain in the butt plant that only brings neg memories of childhood sneakers and socks covered with those things, which, by the way, did happen on this camping mission as well. It took me a few hours to cut, but it is allllll gone on that site! YES, that's what I said, excellent accomplishment. That was when I found this cool crooked branch with a lot of personality screaming SCULPTURE! I will devote an entire blog entry to this masterpiece that sat on the picnic table for 2 days and is now on my back porch. Things are bigger at home....hmmmm...where do I put it now??