Project: 2014 Porcupine Mountains Music Festival, presented by Friends of the Porkies. I was asked to create a design around their guitar shaped logo, and this is what I came up with- inspired by wildflowers found in upper Michigan, where the festival took place. The design was used on t-shirts, handbills, program guide, and posters.
My summer schedule has pretty much come to an end and now I’m catching up on all my email and a zillion other things that fell to the wayside while I was on the road. One thing I haven’t done in awhile that I used to do ALL the time is get out on some local rural roads with my camera. I didn’t have much time out there and the corn is so high right now that there’s not a whole lot to see past it, but it was a good time nonetheless. 
The Hard Working Americans’ summer tour has come to an end (so glad I got to see them play in Boulder!!) and I have an Artist Edition of 45 signed & numbered posters that will be for sale starting at 10am CST on Friday, Aug. 8, at this link: https://ruralpearl.com/blog/?page_id=7836
I was sitting on my deck enjoying the cooler temps when I looked over and saw this gargantuan thing crawling (errr, podding?) along on my deck. Its huge – about 5 inches when walking and stretched out. Thanks to my trusty Butterfly & Moth identification guide, I determined that this alien was the larva of the Cecropia Moth.
Star Thought
By Frances Shaw
I SHALL see a star tonight
From a distant mountain height;
From a city you will see
The same star that shines on me.
’Tis not of the firmament
On a solar journey bent;
Fixed it is through time and weather;—
’Tis a thought we hold together.
I’m home after several terrific days in Colorado. Thanks to the kind folks of Boulder for a great weekend at OpenArts Fest. Here’s a few pics from a day spent in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Joy
By Carl Sandburg
LET a joy keep you.
Reach out your hands
And take it when it runs by,
As the Apache dancer
Clutches his woman.
I have seen them
Live long and laugh loud,
Sent on singing, singing,
Smashed to the heart
Under the ribs
With a terrible love.
Joy always,
Joy everywhere—
Let joy kill you!
Keep away from the little deaths.
Bird in a Bowler Cap. 5 x 7 inch paper cutting.
Come visit the Open Arts Fest this weekend in Boulder, CO!
Saturday, July 19, 10 am – 7 pm
Sunday, July 20, 10 am – 5 pm
Pearl Street Mall between 10th Street and 15th Street and 14th Street 1 block north and south of Pearl. I’ll be near the corner of 13th and Pearl.
8 x 10 inch paper cutting.
8 x 10 inch paper cutting.