Ill-omened moon
I've seen blood moons before, the red moon that appears during Fall evenings, but I've never seen a red moon in the morning until today. When I first saw the moon, it was so bright…
Year: 2020
New palette
Christmas was wonderful again this year. One of my gifts was a new palette. My homemade one is decrepit, as you can see in this photo. I prepared the new palette--a glass-covered reproduction--by removing the…
White Christmas
It started snowing Thursday afternoon and didn't stop until Christmas evening. Six-inches of snow with knee-high drifts, as you can see in this photo taken from our dining room on Christmas morning. Every year we…
Working quietly in the corner
In Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, the protagonist studies painting for two years in an atelier school in Paris. At the end of that time, he screws up his courage to ask the master if…