Day 2. Linger

“Hum of the Flowers” 8×8 in, oil on canvas, framed The little hummingbird from yesterday’s painting made it back into today’s. I love the hummingbird for its precious little quickness, its constant darting, and the reminder it always gives me to maybe linger for a bit before running off to the next shining thing. 31 […]
Day 1. Fight or Flight

“Fight or Flight” 4×4 in, oil on canvas, framed I don’t usually get very sentimental about the new year and maybe that’s because I get sentimental about almost everything else. But fairly recently, the gallery made four years, and I asked myself this question: what has made you the most proud? It’s not a question […]
Start small

We were sitting on the second story porch of a cabin built into the side of a hill looking down at a one-day-past-ten year old casting his fly rod into a catch and release pond. The mountain air was a relief to our tired Mississippi lungs used to breathing in only sticky heat. Hummingbirds visited […]