Hong Kong!

Napster always finds it exciting when he gets to add another country to his list. He keeps a world map, and has us stick in a pin for every country where his art has been purchased. So he was just delighted this week to sell to Jarvis, who's heading back to Hong Kong tomorrow!

This is his first sale into Asia, so it is pretty thrilling.  This adds to his current list, which includes Granada, Barbados, USA (including Hawaii), all of Canada from coast to coast, England, France, Switzerland, New Zealand...It's been a busy week for Napster, as he moves into new international markets -- but those are for other posts.  This one is all about the beautiful city of Hong Kong, and his first Asian sales.  He never dreamed, when he embarked on his artistic career, that his work would travel so far afield.

As for us, we're just speechless!

Alp! Napster has a Fan Club in Switzerland!

We had guests staying with us over the Easter weekend, visiting from Switzerland.  Now, as Nancy handed over the Park Pass for Algonquin, she got all over-confident, and guaranteed that they would see a moose...

It is a really good bet, in April in May. But a guarantee?  So it was with some satisfaction that when they returned from their first day in Algonquin, Doris reported that they had seen "thousands" of moose.  "Well," corrected Stefan, "not perhaps thousands... but very many."

What they had not seen was a pileated woodpecker tree, or a beech tree all scarred with bear claw marks. We went for an after dinner hike to find some for them. 

Napster decided he would come along. Achmed is the usual hiking cat, but this evening he stayed home, sleeping by the fire, and it was Napster Himself who came with us, across the road, into the woods, all the way to the bear tree.  That was a great honour, as Nancy was swift to point out.

We found trees that had been hacked apart by the pileated woodpecker, and talked about the woodpecker's astonishing tongue.


And we found beech trees holding the marks of hungry claws.   Several of Napster's cards found their way into Doris' luggage.

Nor did the adventure stop there. Doris assures us that once they are back home, she is going to head up an Official Fan Club for Napster in Switzerland.  She can be contacted through this blog site.  If you'd like to be Swiss Napster Fan, send us an email, we'll forward it on.