Yay. This painting was sold to Suzanne. Good selection. Interesting painting.

Good deed for the day:

A guy writes me: "I'm wondering if you'd consider letting a non-profit group use your photo of your Dry Eyes Syndrome painting to illustrate research we've done on eye and mouth dryness as a result of rheumatoid arthritis. This is for an article in our newsletter, which goes out to study participants. Circulation is about 10,000 twice a year.
This is it: www.flickr.com/photos/brianfey/76430171/
We would probably use a detail of the painting.
I'm kind of scrambling at the last minute as the stock photo agencies don't have a good one for us.
Thanks for considering.
[name censored]
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
www.arthritis-research.org
AIM mintychip

I write:
Yah. That is likely fine.
Glad you like the art and that it can be useful.
There are conditions:
-You send me a copy of the magazine issue in which the art appears.
To:
Brian Fey
APDO Postal 13
61630 Erongaricuaro, Michoacan
MEXICO
-Also credit the art to "Brian Fey" somewhere in the publication.
To cut out a detail part is fine.
I hope your work against pain goes well.

He writes:
Thank you very much for letting us use your art. I will send you a copy in January.
I think we may be able to pay you a small amount, maybe $50, for the use. Do you have a paypal account or another method? Otherwise we can send a check in US dollars.

I write: Thank you for the offer of bucks. That is very nice.
Bucks are not my main priority. Feel free to donate them to your cause or some related one in my name. I like that some people will enjoy the image.
Yay!

He writes:
Thanks, Brian. That's very generous of you. We all appreciate it very much. We'll be sure to send you a copy when it's printed in January.


Yay!
It is nice that people find art useful on occasion.

Cool sounding play "WALDEN: The Ballad of Thoreau": http://www.waldenplay.com/index.php

cold tired hurt strange.
no place to go but onward.

*Earthquake hit: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2007kecf.php
No apparent damage.

*Harvest dinner was smaller than I desired but pleasant.

*Cuts healing up. Eye much better. Ankle still messed up and swollen. Need to rest and not walk on it.

Last night walking home in the dark though forest I wasn't familiar with I got kinda lost, then fell off into a ravine and injured my left foot, and smashed my right knee and fell into some barbed wire cutting my face.
After getting more lost and thrashing about and crawling to try to find my way back to known places while being hurt... I got kinda annoyed and couldn't walk well due to my ankle.
After considering my options. I called for help (ick. I never need to do that.) and friends heard me and found me. Luckily one was looking for me after I was missing for a while. The forest is very dark. Walked home on the inured leg and got lost again a little.
Today I can put no weight on my left foot. Knee hurt but ok mostly. Cuts below my eye and on the eyelid. And a lump above my right temple. Small cuts on both hands and left hand hurt somehow inside.

Ouch. I am considering going into town to get foot x-rayed and to buy some crutches.

Overall I am fine, just kinda annoyed. Don't really want to go into town.

tired zooming...
gotta get more done... zoom zoom. Behind on everything.

Day of the dead around Lake Patzcuaro, Michaocan, Mexico.

Here are the photos from 6 days while friends visited for the day of the dead.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianfey/sets/72157602935371500/

Many small adventures! Zoom!

Any ideas what this symbol could mean? I don't recognize it.

Lots of fun adventures with guests.

First batch of photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianfey/sets/72157602935371500/