Ruffled Cloud

Yesterday, Christy and I planted two Ruffled Cloud Rose bushes as a memorial to Scott. They are planted on the East side of my art studio in our back yard.

Something I've been thinking about lately was the Toy Show trips Scott and I took. We went each summer for 3 years.
It was held at the Ogden County Fairgrounds.

We'd get up early, so we could beat the lines.
When we got inside we first did a quick lap around the convention center to assess the goods offered...
Then we did a "Must Have" lap, during which we bought everything we went there for... The first year it was mostly McFarlane Toys. Most importantly, The Maxx with the black isz. That figure had eluded us for about a year.
After that lap, we bought a zillion Spawn toys, and Iron Man, and Spider-man.
The one that Scott bought at the end of the first Toy Show was "Titanium Man" from the Iron Man collection. He had waited to buy it until the end of the Toy Show because he wanted to talk the seller down in price - which he did. He kept it in the package, wanting to preserve the mint condition of it. I found it, along with his collection of Iron Man comics that I bought for him as I was sorting through his closet two days after he passed away.