Thanks, Paratrooper. We're all proud of him, and there are some very special pieces in the show. Not only are our daughter Kate's silver baby cup and gold teething rattle in there, but there are several pieces from my "collection" of his work. The lincoln logs pictured above are mine, as is a "flying machine" that I inherited from dad's twin brother when he died about eight years ago (it's the thumbnail by the "Links" link on my site\'s front page - but I've got a better picture that I'll try to track down). There's even a copper panel of a turtle that normally hangs at the end of the hall in our house and was the first example of texture that our daughter ever discovered. Needless to say, I'm looking forward to Repair Days next month and to giving folks a chance to see a wide array of his work. I may try to expand my show page at some point with some of the other shots I took.

From time to time I'm asked how the son of two artists (mom teaches high school art and art history) ended up being an engineer, and I always tell folks that it's because of the mechanical aspects of dad's work and because of how interesting it was to watch him develop processes to achieve certain goals in making new pieces that I ended up in mechanical engineering. Dad's version is a bit less literally true - he tells folks that when I was four or five I thought it looked like fun coming up with new processes and objects, but that I decided I wanted to get paid for it when I grew up.