Her New Morning View

Next month we will celebrate Mother Nature’s great flooding shove.

Celebrate ?

Well heck yeah.
We are still here…
together
our tiny family
just a bit wigglier and furrier
making the best of
turning the old studio
into our new living space
and now the summer is in full swing
and we are sitting on the back porch
in our old lady rocking chairs
watching big machines
move heaven…
and lots and lots of earth
in the service of
building us a new studio
with extra space
and light…
lots and lots of light.

This painting was the first one up on the easel
after we had shifted the old studio around enough for me to begin again.
It was early last winter
and we were discovering the pleasure
of eating breakfast together in the sunrise studio kitchen before I got to work.
Herself was enjoying watching how the early rays of light
stream across the snowy yard and wake up that magnificent stone barn.
And we were beginning
to move on
from survival mode
to the counting of our blessings.