It feels like Edinburgh here in Massachusetts. It’s been raining and raining. This is what people mean when they say the Cape has no spring. Because we have weather like this and then it just turns hot for three months.
Yesterday my studio was warm with a fire in the wood-stove, and a new painting on the easel. And I was content to stay in and paint but then something amazing happened. The sun came out, and I really wanted to stay right there and paint. Actually it was out for three hours.
But I could not relax and work because I feared this would be my one chance to get some shots of a superb subject in the sunlight.
I made myself stop working inside and get in the jeep with three camera and go out and get the reference of right now, one of the prettiest weeks of this season. And this was a good move because I had a beautiful Japanese Garden to capture. I began this series last week, in oils and it is going to go on all year Painting reflections and spring, heavy with design but subtle with the color harmonies. That’s the plan.
The new painting is still on the easel and the fog has rolled back in.
This is an amazing landscape. I am sure you are glad you got into that jeep to capture this picture at that exact moment in time.