(Inside A Black Apple)

Happy Halloween

Some sketchbook ghosts seemed like a good thing for today!

Also good things for today:

- I Was a Teenage Werewolf (or, really, any song by The Cramps)

- Spider Baby !

- Wander the Beistle HQ with Heidi

- Hell's Bells/Silly Symphonies

- Caramel sauce (for apple slices, for just eating off the spoon)

- Put on your best Wednesday Addams dress (or Pugsley striped tee, if you prefer)

Lion Disguise

Lion Disguise   8"x10"    Acrylic on wood

Sometimes Eleanor wants to become something very fierce.

A Little Bear in Striped Trousers

I made this little bear for a new bebe.

I went into this with delusions that I'd make a beautiful, heirloom teddy bear -- old-fashioned and soft mohair and shiny glass eyes. But when I set to work, this funny little guy is who I ended up with.

Not exactly the perfect Winnie-the-pooh bear I'd imagined, but a bear nonetheless.

A bear with his own charms & his own striped trousers.

We just returned from London (and a side-trip to Paris) & there are things I want to share from the trip.
I also need to finish posting the last few Eleanor pieces.

More dispatches soon!

Eleanor & Claude

Eleanor & Claude    11x14    Acrylic on wood

Apple Season

is the best season.

I'm living honeycrisp apple to honeycrisp apple and the smell of woodsmoke hangs in the air and there are heaps of pumpkins at the grocery store and talk turns to ghosts and baked things and sweaters and the call of the woods gets so loud and around it all, that ambery light.

Is there a more enchanted month than October? The more I'm around, the more I find out that it's nearly everyone's favorite. And it's mine too.