A few weeks weeks ago your humble blogger and his lovely wife drove North on I 77 for our visit to Kraynak’s, which you might have read about here in recent weeks.

On the way up, somewhere between Ravenswood and Parkersburg, if I remember correctly, to the left of the Interstate we saw a gigantic helicopter, pulling something heavy on a line beneath it. We never saw whatever it was lugging around raise above the treeline, so I honestly don’t know what the hell was going on.  It sure looked cool, though.

I grabbed a series of photos on my phone, and the painting you see above is based on a composite of several of those. It’s acrylic on a large piece of illustration board, and it took a couple of weeks to finish, in spurts, thanks to that ole’ Myasthenia Gravis.

If you want to see this image larger, click HERE.

Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR,  we bring you a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM we do the same with Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page. Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

Tonight at 8 PM, tune in for a classic edition of The Comedy Vault. That’s followed by two-hour blocks of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast at 9 PM and 11 PM, and then an overnight assortment of our Haversham Recording Institute programs at 1 AM.