Renaissance Man

A man of science...


of man of art...


a gentle nurturer of infants...


and a lover of muscle shirts and bike stunts.



He is passionately interested in so many things now that there's hardly time in the day to do half of the ideas he comes up with. We are often waking up to bright eyed Silas listing the things he wants to do (counting them on his fingers for emphasis) and instructing us in how we can help him meet his goals. He invents a new science "experience" almost every day. Most of them either involve a pipette and a "test kit", as he calls the ice tray, or a trap for bugs with variable kinds of bait. He still spends a lot of time making art, usually drawing, and although the marks he makes on the page are getting more complex and a bit more purposeful he still leans towards the abstract representations of maps, things towing other things or wild storm/fire scenes of chaos and rescue. The bathtub art you see above was first described to us as a map, then as a cheetah, wolf, great white, two headed turtle, etc etc. Much to my delight many of his works are now signed, with his awesome backwards "a".

When he's not conducting experiences or creating art, he's indulging his newest obsession: listening to bluegrass music. His two favorite bands, far and away, are from Walnut Creek and have overlapping members: Oak Grove and OMGG [site plays music on loading], but he can get into any band that will play Tennessee Waltz or Wagon Wheel.

It's so hard to keep up with the blog since our photo situation got more complicated (I won't bore you with the details of my mac confusions). And there's also that little problem of Silas's resistance to any photo that is posed alongside another person. So just believe me when I say we have had fun visits from my dad and from Kevin's mom, and maybe pictures will come along some day.