A Person, Artist, Software Engineer, Geologist.

Here is one of my distractions. I’ve been hiking in Rocky Fork State Park (in TN, just across the state line) for about 1-1/2 years and I’ve seen this stream that runs through it.  Been scoping it out for a while for fish and have seen plenty, but never fished there because I don’t have a TN license and non-resident licenses cost.a bunch more than resident ones.  But I took the plunge and bought one the other day and fished this stream. What a joy.  Small, clear, wild and lots of native / wild trout in it.  I used my Tenkara rod because of the over growth and small fish size.  Worked great.  First day out caught 4 fish, hooked but lost 2 more and had lots of bites.  In the park only single hook artificial lures are allowed which is great for fly fishing.  I also crimp the barbs on the hooks to minimize and damage to the fish. The stream was clear, cool and not a single piece of trash, waste or human pollution around.  Only light paths from the main trail near by (between 0-

Be not afraid, go ahead and post what you want. It’s not all going to be great stuff, but it’s an evolution of thoughts process and where one may be going.  In my case it’s all over the map, but still making progress.  I’ve got a list of things I want to paint and it’s sometimes hard to sit down and do them.  It’s not something that I just sit down and start to paint, I’ve got to get into the mind set, clear my mind of all the other items of distraction.

Sometimes you're just going to be lucky, so be prepared for it. I took this photo down on the forgotten coast of Florida's panhandle.  Bobbie and I where doing some work on her uncle's beach house and we where driving back to Port St. Joe heading back home.  I wanted to get a photo of the layers of trees (foreground, background) that gave a kind of spooky dinosaur era effect.  I rolled down the car window (while driving) and pointed my iPhone out the window and took a shot.  Only later when I looked at the photo (and did a little cropping to remove the power lines) did I discover that I had gotten lucky.  It happens sometimes. The composition with the lower foreground blur (from moving) to the twin trees in the center and the tall foreground tree on the right with the line of background tree just turned out great.  Way better that I was expecting.  I just wanted an example for a drawing / painting I wanted to do.