Well… its been quite complex and unsettling.  Lots of family members with health issues. That makes for lots of praying and thoughts of others.  There is nothing like retreating to the studio to allow one’s mind to go to a better place.

Just finished a painting and it is dry enough to put up.  Dean is delighted and likes it better than the last of this particular type.

Two in the hopper… still working on them … a new portrait started and on to the second in my new series.  The painting finished is not part of that body of work.  Just a request from my dear husband that took quite a few months to complete.

Odd summer.  Garden was a total disaster.  We acquired Tomato blight – the same blight spread to most of our vegetables and we lost it all.  Tomato and other vegetable blight is the potato blight that hit Ireland so many years ago.  Garden has been cleaned and we will have to get the soil retested before next summer.  It looks like this: