Shots Across The Bow

My first art link

Welcome to a new direction for Shots Across the Bow. Actually, it's less of a direction and more of an expansion. Or maybe a braodening of horizons.

Whatever.

Anyway, I was checking my logs to see who stopped by and found a weblog new to me, Lone Prairie. The proprietor is Julie Neidlinger, an artist hailing from North Dakota, which she assures us is NOT Purgatory.

My buddy and I drove through South Dakota on our way from Saratoga NY to Bremerton WA, and that's as close as I've ever been to her neck of the woods. We were driving through endless wheat fields, and I called my buddy on the CB.

"There's miles and miles of nothing out here," I said.

Before he could respond, a different voice came over the CB

"There's miles and miles of everything out here. You just have to know where to look!"

I called back to him and asked him where he was.
It turned out we were talking to a guy on a combine somewhere near the horizon, a few miles from the highway. We talked for a few minutes before getting out of range, and I apologized for inadvertantly insulting his home. He was very gracious, and admitted that when you first get there, it does seem very remote and barren, but after a few years, you get to liking the solitude.

Now, years later, with six kids, three dogs, one cat, an hour and a half commute, traffic jams, telemarketers, door to door evangelists, crime, and let's not forget the threat of chem/bio terror, I'm beginning to see what he meant. Having a few square miles between me and my nearest neighbor wouldn't be a bad thing...

Go check out Julie's website, which features a nice blog, as well as some galleries of her work.

By the way, she's also a monster Lord of the Rings fan, which only goes to show her good taste.

Posted by Rich at February 20, 2003 2:26 PM | TrackBack