At last the first blog post is here! It's the day before Memorial Day, and there is a steady soaking rain--the kind of rain that makes you want to curl up in bed with a good book and sip tea. Everything in the outside world is green--a dense almost tropical penetrating green nourished by the pouring rain...The green is almost more than the horses can stand! They know when the grass is green and they are keen for it.......Like them I am intoxicated with the rich green texture....the infinite graduation of shading, leaf repetitions....

Once the household is breakfasted I will resisit the urge to crawl back under the covers and settle myself in the studio and see where the hypnotic green patterns lead me.....