A is for apple and I bet you drew them with the red crayon, didn't you?  This little painting (and it is little- 3" x 3"- probably smaller than what you can see on your screen right now) is a thumbnail/study for a bigger painting I've been thinking about for a while now.  In the meantime, this one was great fun, and is scheduled to head to Hampton for the small works show at Charles H. Taylor.

Is it a bad thing to want to live in a painting?  Is it a little odd to organize one's rooms to be "interiors"?  Most of my house isn't ready for prime time, but the one I retire to and wake in is closer than most- even as I looked over paint swatches, I knew I'd come to paint it.

Just about there, on both Mary and the roses.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again- flowers give me more trouble in the translation to canvas than anything else I can think of.   This seems patently unfair, given how much I like flowers, and how many of them grace my domestic situation- unlike hills in this neck of the swamp, flowers are everywhere- my garden in particular exceeds the bounds of its beds regularly.