12 - Rhubarb Ruffles (original oil painting, 5 x 7 in, framed) to see what Buckthorn flowers

to see what Buckthorn flowers look like - tiny yellow stars where each bunch of oval leaves emerge on the twigs

I am looking southward

and biting where I could not see them

Toward the left on the horizon of my painting you can see hydro transmission towers (the stacks are just off the canvas) of an installation that we're told depended on a particular kind of coal from Venezuela and closed down when the fuel ceased to be available

They were coming up below the hand which held the canvas

12 - Rhubarb Ruffles (original oil painting, 5 x 7 in, framed) to see what Buckthorn flowers31 March finds me crouched over another scene of spring vigour in the Rhubarb patch. The weather is much improved, with warm sunshine and hardly any breeze and the Mosquitoes think so too. They were coming up below the hand which held the canvas, near to the ground, and biting where I could not see them. The Starlings are boasting their skills of mimicry. I heard a Gray Tree Frog call four times, and I know it was a bird. Read more