"Stepping Out" Now is this appropriate for moving, or what? Ho ho! Here's a PACK MULE (and I sure can relate as I sit here with aching muscles and unmoved loads!) with a full set of panniers going out on the trail. Those first few steps are full of resistance to forward movement... like me in the mornings lately! I do have to say that every day it is getting better--the studio boxes are getting unpacked, plans are unfolding for the canvas and frame storage areas, and I'm even getting ready to dismantle the Hughes easel and send (carry) it over to the new place of honor. Along with great thoughts like that are ones of today's work. I spent a good portion of it hacking with a machete at cactus that has been around for fifty years, harboring all sorts of vermin way too close to the house. Temps in the mid-90s. Hooked the diesel pickup with a logging chain to one of them, and almost pulled some of it out with great excitement, at least until the chain snapped. Tomorrow, more of the same. Painting seems so civilized and genteel compared to machetes and logging chains. Visions of the rat who stole my digital camera go through my head as I swing the tool. Makes for efficient slicing of a moist and thorny spindle of green, opening up new views and creating room under the pines. Maybe I'm a bit "mulish" about it???
SOLD to the collection of Charlotte McDavid of Birmingham, Alabama.
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