Time goes by so quickly. My husband has had trouble getting around because of a bad knee so he finally got a knee replacement early in November. It is surprising how much time it takes when one person doubles up on chores and tries to do the work that two people usually do. When Bruce retired he took over a lot of household duties in order to allow me time to dedicate to my painting. That has been a real blessing. Now that he needs to mend and do therapy, I have gone back to a busy schedule of household chores which leaves little time or energy for my art. This old/new schedule takes a lot of time and energy but part of that is caused by all the going up and down the stairs double or triple the amount of times as I am used to. This week I have managed to put in a few hours on my latest effort, a portrait of my nephew and his grand father. I don’t plan on downloading the in progress shots because I hope to present the finished portrait soon. The gallery is waiting for it and I would like to finish it before the end of the month. I thought I would let all my friends on this blog know what I have been doing and why I have not made entries here recently. When this work is finished I have two great preliminary ideas I want to work on. I may even set them up to work on them simultaneously. Also, I have wanted to develope my skills on landscape. I went out into the wilds of our local area this fall and risked life and limb to stomp around in creeks trying to get some good reference photos to use through the winter. Later I will download a shot of a small landscape I finished lately. I have several other projects in the pipeline encluding a portrait class that I may begin after the first of the year. If anyone is interested, use my contact page on this blog to let me know. Till then, shalom. Diana