My Notebook (thanks, Doug). "There's a big difference between complicated and difficult" I wrote this in my notebook at a gallery talk by painter Norman Lundin shortly before the pandemic hit -- it was his response to a comment that his paintings seem simple (which they do -- until you look closely.) This is the first tabletop photograph I've taken in a VERY long time. This photograph "Kathy's Piano" is the one I have in the annual 10x10x10 show sponsored by Tieton Arts and H

I have a bit of a taste for surreal – not the over the top Salvador Dali type. I prefer the less flamboyant Rene Magritte “make me think about it” type. Thornton Wilder’s play “The Skin of Our Teeth” is one of my all time favorites. (Especially the production we saw in which the protagonist was a deaf actor who signed his lines while the actor nearest him said them and the ASL interpreter on stage stood frozen) But I digress. In photography (stand a little farther away from