Framed Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home, Hannibal MO sustainable I first spied these simple

I first spied these simple pen handles on display when visiting Edward Gorey’s house museum in Cape Cod

–from Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket

how it distills abundance into a place to begin

or a pendant around your neck

but unlike all of the others

Framed Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home, Hannibal MO sustainable I first spied these simpleLight changes, colors transform, shadows emerge and fade. Each time I step into nature I am confronted with its fleeting intricacies juxtaposed with its promise of enduring newness. My excursions with paint and brush are a humble attempt to capture moments of this change to live in the now. Each painting is a time capsule containing a multitude of hidden details: the feeling of the cold sand on my bare feet, the itchy bites of a hoard of mosquitos,