Back home and back to work!

After just over a month in the NC mountains to escape storms and heat, I'm finally back home and back in the studio.  Have a couple commissions to finish up and also hope to get a painting entered in the "Soul of a Woman" show, so its busy!  good busy!  I'll post paintings as I progress...

I do take time each day to go out and throw the cast net to see what's in the river.  We've had a lot of rain this July, the river is very tannic brown right now.  No shrimp now but a cast of the net brings up dozens of small shad!  Very interesting.  I kinda feel like I'm taking the pulse of the river each day to see what's going on.