Spring break provided time to visit dear friends in Santa Fe and Questa, with a lovely drive up to Taos along the Rio Grande— more visible at this time of year, before the leaves appear. Turquoise rapids and teal eddies, and then the deep umbra shadows of the gorge (as pictured in the cover photo and first photo) complement the distant mountain tops. In this liminal space between winter and spring, we enjoyed some dustings of snow which will help everything to grow. The suite of ROY G. BIV Frutas paintings found a new home in a classroom in Michigan, and a printed version of the Pomegranate is hanging in Cambridge, under a charcoal drawing of a giant eggbeater that I did while at Colby College. I am grateful to these friends— who are two of my biggest collectors— to have purchased these paintings. The annual order of notecards arrived with a variety of new paintings and photos, and I have been preparing photographs for an upcoming show at the Old School Gallery in EL Morro and for Star Garden Gallery’s summer inventory. And, of course— a few photos of the pups: Samus sunning by her doghouse, Toast cozy on the chaise, and Tuna recovering from a run-in with a barbed wire fence. Wishing you the bloom that begins in April!
