Seagull for Mom...

You have to see this. For my Mom's memorial John Davis and his wife Kim came up from Dallas which to me, meant more than I can ever say. My Mom had this thing with Seagulls. Whenever I did a seascape painting, she always said "I think it needs a seagull or so". They always landed in her backyard, and we saw them as motifs in her home and, pulling into the Funeral Home parking lot 3 weeks ago, a flock of seagulls(not the group from the 80's) took to the sky. As we're led to the showroom to pick out an urn for her ashes, the one that lept out at both my wife and myself was one with seagulls on it. It was the nicest one. And, the song I picked for her Memorial-one of two-was by Neil Diamond....from Jonathan Livingston Seagull just by happenstance. I saw this as messages from the Great Beyond. John also framed a nice print of this for me. He's a friend that I've officially known for 9 years, and he's now a brother.

Anyway, here's John's blog. This guy's pix are among the best I have seen of the deeps of space.

http://downthewormhole.blogspot.com/2009/02/seagull-for-pauline.html