City Mouse, Country Mouse

I stayed in the city this weekend. I had some design work to do, friends in town from L.A.,  and I was really missing my usual visits with Jo and Olivia. So I had dinner with said LA friends on Friday at Cookshop, which never disappoints and has the tastiest purslane salad I have ever had. (I am going to try and do some landscaping at the church with it). This is Olivia, she is almost three and half years old now and doesn't like to wear pants, only dresses. I had a nice dinner at Pylos with Olivia and her mom. Such good company, Greek Salad and salmon.

Here's the cover I designed for Lelia Broussard. Another member of the Dan Romer gang, Lelia reached out to me to design her CD package. I listened to the three MP3s she sent me and I loved her voice and thought her lyrics showed a lot of maturity for someone so young. Let's just say, we have similar feelings. The budget was tight but Lelia fortunately already had photos taken by Shervin Lainez so I was able to put together something fairly quickly that was clean and modern.
I sent Lelia the layout for the entire package last night which always has a moment of anticipation laced with dread for me. But Lelia responded that she loved it. My favorite kind of client :)I did get a formal bid on the foundation work that I have a good feeling about. I think I will have that sewn up by the end of this week with work hopefully beginning at the end of August. My poison ivy is finally clearing up. I was explaining to one of my young co-workers that I had a bit of the Oliver Wendell Douglas about me up in the Church in Coxsackie. He had no idea what I was talking about.I head back up next weekend and will not go near the poison ivy again. Lesson learned.