Momento Mori

Memento Mori; Love, Art and Flowers that Bite...Bill Mayer curated by Tim Jaeger Will open in the Patricia Thompson Gallery At Ringling College of Art in Sarasota, Florida.Opening January 13th and will run through May 3.

I sit and listen for the clock to tick... There is only the sound of rain on the tin roof. A few birds chatting it up in the cedars, trying to stay dry. The coffee’s percolating a jazzy Latin beat...
First thing you should know is You Will Die; Knowing this I started out my last day with the fortitude of Hunter S Thompson...
Waking at 5:37, Sunrise at Calf Pasture.... Long ride up the point to the Presqu'ile Lighthouse...return to a couple pots of percolated coffee, four scrambled eggs, half pound of bacon, and a Dutch Baby; followed by a Bloody Mary, and a nice swim in the bay...
Another long trail ride up the point, through Jobe's woods, to Jobe's Lane, down the lake shore to the park store for a heaping scoop of morning ice cream... Sprint back to the cottage for another brisk swim... Repair deck chair... A little painting on the cabinet. Then a trip to the windy beach to see the Waddlings and a glass of the finest Canadian Rye... It smelled like dried grass and a horse barn... Paint cabinet, paint face, costume, Tequila, ...Calathumpian Parade!
Met our first new Neighbors in Eighty years... We all gather for dinner. Ontario corn, various casseroles all laced with Canadian cheese... Chicken smothered in Fox Brothers BBQ sauce, hot dogs, pecan pie, butter tarts, some jello thing (I have no idea)... after dinner, Bonfire. Fire hooping and spinning under the most incredible orange moon rising... I was told tonight that I don't eat like a pig, pigs chew their food.... I eat like a duck.... We gather around the fire and tell stories of Pondscoggins, Lunkerheads, and Banshees that steal children away in the night.