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    So last weekend my friend from junior high through college came up his with little girl and his parents for the weekend. His parents had a week at a timeshare near Branson. For the last year or so he has been living in Dallas, TX after living in Denver for several years. In Colorado he fell in love with fly-fishing, a love that his father had discovered years before. Living in Dallas he is several hours drive to the closest trout fishing and he knew how much I love fly-fishing so they all came well prepared. I only got to fish with him for a few hours, since my wife was baby-sitting my son with Jim's parents whom she never had met before. The next day though Jim brought his father where he and I fished the day before and Jim sent me a couple of pictures after he got back to Dallas. When I saw one of them I knew I had to paint it or at least the spirit of it. I will keep adding pics as I work on it. Shouldn't take more than a couple weeks, but then again I am terrible at guess-timating finishing times. It will be done when its done.

    Day One.



    Day Two.



    Phillip Taylor
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    Work In Progress

    By zander,

    So I have been working on my latest painting. I have been keeping it pretty secret since it is something totally different. But as my wife and family can tell you I am not good at keeping secrets so I'll let just the people who happen to randomly read my blog in on it. You can see about it here:

    And if you want to see some of my other paintings done with brushes click here: http://www.farandawayonline.com/Water/Apr0...routhunting.htm

    Thanks for reading and watching.....updates will follow.

    Phillip Taylor
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    Worlds Apart

    By zander,

    As some of you know, my wife is from Croatia. Every spring, her and my son go to visit her family. They usually stay for around a month. The times I am fortunate enough and rich enough to accompany them I have a great time. The times when I am stuck here get pretty lonely. I had to stay this year. Tomorrow is my son's 4th birthday and I'll miss it, but will try to make up for it as soon as he gets back. They get back back on the 27th of May so it is coming up soon.

    So much has happened with me and my job since they left. I offically found out yesterday that I got a promotion I was trying for. 150 people applied and 8 got it. It is for a relief team manager. Basically if a permanent mgr is out for a while we would cover their teams. That project lasts for 6 months. Usually this is a door into becoming a full time mgr with the bank. The advantages of that among other things would be that I could get 3 weeks of vacation each year instead of the two weeks I get now. That would come in pretty handy.

    My brother in law mentioned to my wife in passing the other day, "Oh tell Phillip that when we were in Hercegovina we saw a river full of "mladica" and they were in there spawning. Your cousin went down and caught one of them."

    Here is a brain exercise:

    Krabby patty recipe is to Plankton as
    Motherlode is to a '49er as
    Old rich guy on death bed is to Gold-diggers as
    Mladica is to Phillip Taylor

    Understand???? For someone who has never caught one or even seen one in real life, it is my absolute DREAM fish to catch. What is it?
    It is the largest salmonid in Europe. It can grow to over 6 feet long and historically could weigh over 100lbs. It eats grayling and brown trout. This is the fish that Neanderthals swam with, that darted away from cave bears. This is a fish's fish! Pictures below.
    http://www.hitech-solutions.com/Trout/Mladica.htm

    In Croatia I have not been able to fish for them since we usually go to Croatia in the late spring and the season lasts for the month of February. I guess the season in Bosnia is different, so when I go next, my fly rod will be with me along with a bunch of PMS's. All I have to do is wait for next year and hope that things work out so that I can go. My wife goes to Croatia to see her family, I go to see that beautiful part of Europe.
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