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	<title>Victoria Webb - Furious Dreams. Painter, Designer, Activist</title>
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		<title>Tom and Jack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Hart Benton&#8217;s paintings of working men and women in his distinctly American landscape have always sparked an emotional reaction in me. They remind me of childhood summers spent in North Carolina tobacco country, at my maternal grandparents&#8217; hand hewn log cabin on their 40 acre farm outside Winston-Salem. The diverse and urbane culture of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.furiousdreams.com/blog/?p=7650</link>
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		<title>Death of a farm, the soil lives on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always look forward to reading Verlyn Klinkenborg&#8217;s editorial notebook page in the Sunday NY Times. He writes of wind howling at night, gardens and long walks with his dog in country fields. This past sunday he told of the oldest farm in the country going out of business; the  Tuttle Farm near Dover, NH. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.furiousdreams.com/blog/?p=7597</link>
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		<title>A last summer in Pennsylvania, apologies to Gary Snyder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My beautiful gardens, the last apple tree and twilights drilled by cicadas and frogs. July steam that doesn&#8217;t end at dusk. Chiggers plague, or is it poison ivied ankles? Another journey, leavings turn melancholy. Places change, memories shift, grasses grow wilder. Paintings of shadow and light move on. And the black cat is nowhere to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.furiousdreams.com/blog/?p=7581</link>
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		<title>Heat wave paintings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New paintings from my garden series. 99 to 102 degrees this week. Today, a mere 88 and the first time I could stand to be out on the sun porch and paint. Monarda (scarlet bee balm) with trumpet daylilies, and a huge Mullein to rival the stalky succulents and Echium in Golden Gate Park. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.furiousdreams.com/blog/?p=7553</link>
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		<title>Save the bees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bee up Image ©RoxanaVilla Bees need protection. You may be aware of Colony Collapse Disorder, but you may not know that scientists haven&#8217;t yet figured out what&#8217;s causing it. I watched a PBS program last week about the bee population having been completely decimated in some parts of China, from pollution and chemical exposure; they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.furiousdreams.com/blog/?p=7466</link>
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		<title>Two designers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Selling my paintings online has offered exposure to a variety of artists, artisans and designers who are using the web as a similar tool. Two of those acquaintances are interior designers; Caitlin Creer of Salt Lake City, and Victoria Smith of San Francisco. I met Victoria through Etsy and Caitlin had posted about my work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.furiousdreams.com/blog/?p=7403</link>
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		<title>Hommage aux pommes, a new painting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hommage Aux Pommes. Acrylic on canvas panel, 14&#8243;x16&#8243; 2010.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.furiousdreams.com/blog/?p=7360</link>
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		<title>Storm and loss of Liberty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon my neighborhood came through a freak storm of high winds and heavy rain, but despite not losing power, or having a tree fall on the house or car as some in the area suffered, I lost one of my beloved apple trees. This morning I found the 4 yr old semi-dwarf Liberty thrown to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.furiousdreams.com/blog/?p=7327</link>
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		<title>New paintings for June</title>
		<description><![CDATA[June Gardens. Acrylic on canvas panel, 9&#8243; x 12&#8243; 2010. The painting was inspired by the riot of color in my gardens. Daylilies, roses, peonies and a wonderful dusky green mullein (verbascum) plant just beginning to bloom. Tropic of Capricorn. Acrylic on canvas panel, 9&#8243; x 12&#8243; 2010. This painting is both an homage to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.furiousdreams.com/blog/?p=7304</link>
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		<title>Mickey One, directed by Arthur Penn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been able to find many glowing reviews of this 1964 film and it seems to be misunderstood on almost every level. Most reviewers portray the director, Arthur Penn, as having failed at his task of creating a coherent narrative and Warren Beatty as being &#8216;energetic&#8217; but miscast as the lead. As one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.furiousdreams.com/blog/?p=7274</link>
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