James Akers<p>Gosh has it been fun galavanting around Texas in A rental car with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@alifeeney" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alifeeney</span></a></span> visiting our old Dallas, Fort Worth haunts!</p><p> I finally took Ali on a date to the National Cowgirls Hall of Fame Museum- I hung those Hermes scarves in the stairs in a past life as an Art handler - Hollywood horse is my favorite, and "Horses being Horses" is Ali's favorite. </p><p>I was delighted to see my old friend Josh Hargrave making amazing kiln cast work work. And some doodles that Alicia has of mine. Made from back in about 2018 or so. </p><p>It is fun flying down the highway with the windows down an radio blaring, giant roadside neon signs flying by... Just like old times :) I even got to take my plasma friend Percy Echols to my favorite Dallas BBQ spot - Slow Bone.</p><p>Glass Art Society Conference is firing up here tomorrow- should be a very glassy <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DFW</span></a></p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>texas</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/dfw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dfw</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glassartsociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glassartsociety</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/horses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horses</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/cowgirlsmuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cowgirlsmuseum</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/cowgirls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cowgirls</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glass</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/neon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neon</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/light" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>light</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/castglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>castglass</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/dallas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dallas</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/fortworth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fortworth</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/BBQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBQ</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/GAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GAS</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conference</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glassnerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glassnerd</span></a></p>