While flying to New York at 32,000 feet altitude, I draw a Landscape of Objects...

I love to draw while flying, I often spend that unique space and time event in explorations of new ideas and concepts...

Celebrate Earth Day with my daughter

 Her drawings and collages are an amazing collection of ideas and thoughts about taking care of our very special planet Earth...

The flatiron building, New York...

"I found myself agape, admiring a sky-scraper the prow of the Flat-iron Building, to be particular, ploughing up through the traffic of Broadway and Fifth Avenue in the afternoon light."

H.G. Wells

From Wikipedia...When the building was first constructed, it received a lot of mixed feedback. The most known criticism received was known as “Burnham’s Folly”. This criticism focused on the structure of the building and claimed that “combination of triangular shape and height would cause the building to fall down.” Critics believed that the building created a dangerous wind-tunnel at the intersection of the two streets, and could possibly knock the building down. Although the wind is strong at the intersection, the buildings structure was meant to accommodate four times the typical wind loads in order to stabilize and retain the building’s iconic triangular shape.

The New York Tribune called the new building "A stingy piece of pie ... the greatest inanimate troublemaker in New York", while the Municipal Art Society said that it was "Unfit to be in the Center of the City". The New York Times called it a "monstrosity".

Fan palm and Bouganvillea on the island of St. Thomas

Virgin Gorda and the Baths with waterspout

On the rocky arrival to Virgin Gorda, the sight of a waterspout brings a memory of a Winslow Homer painting

Map of the journey through the Virgin Islands

Map of the route through the Virgin Islands 

Painted view of port in Tortola, Frenchmans Cay

Colorful scene from Tortola stopover for customs and entry into the waters of British Virgin Islands

...I was so intrigued by the colors of the metal roofs and the exterior walls and openings of the houses and shops on the island of Tortola...

... now I need to create a map of the journey...

Around the island of St. John's, the colors other waters are astonishingly beautiful...