Close to the Edge

If anyone who reads this blog loves progressive rock as much as I do, you'll appreciate how chuffed I was to spend last night at the Greek (brilliant open-air theatre built in 1930 in Griffith Park - within walking distance of my house), watching Yes perform. I used to listen to Yes constantly throughout my teens and through university. The performance was just fantastic. (If you don't know Yes then I insist you listen to this (YouTube video)

The album art for Yes is wonderful - created by artist Roger Dean - his website is here. The image on the left is from the album 'Keys to Ascension'.

Photo below is one I took at the Greek of Yes performing.

The previous night was my talented artist friend Nico Marlet's birthday party (I've shown some of his artwork on this blog in a past post here), so I made him a miniature birthday cake with candles of about 1 mm in diameter and 5 mm in height. 

It was the least I could since he had recently drawn me meeting one of his famous dragons! Scroll past the photos of the miniature cake to see it, click to enlarge. I adore this drawing of me because he had been looking through some of my past miniature work and liked my crows, pumpkins and snails, so he put them in the drawing! He even got my signature 'humbug' dress in there...