Remedy

What might be called "Spring Fever"may sometimes manifest in not being able to enjoy the season due to a fear of it being soon over too soon, with fall waiting ominously in the wings.

The antidote is to imagine a fall scene.  Then embrace it.  Don't resist it.  Welcome it.  

Why?

We never really enjoy anything if we fear its loss.

The Greengold of Spring

Not Missing Winter

North Shore of Lake Harriet

Bluey's Back

He may be sleeping in this morning.

It's a tradition!

Every year I am fortunate to paint the flowering crabapple trees.  Here's a warm-up piece painted just a few weeks before the actual buds appear.  With snow still on the ground, it's hard to imagine that in less than a month the trees will look like this!

Can't really blame the birds

for looking a bit frustrated with the April snowstorm!

Another Cycle

The goose parents are in place to commence their spring cycle.  You must look closely to see the mother nesting on the island to the right.  And the father in the middle of the picture is actually standing on the ice, just below what appears to be open water.  As the beauty unfolds, mother nature will have much to say.  Will this sweet couple weather the predicted eight inch snowstorm?

And that's just the beginning of what life has in store for them.  Goose parents have quite a job to perform.

Can you see mother goose's silhouette?

Spring is officially here....

even though it doesn't feel like it weather-wise.

But depictions in pigment help the mind's eye prepare for its inevitable return.