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Happy Summer Solstice!

Today is the first day of summer, and even the weather seems to agree, with temps in the 80’s, sunny mornings, thunderheads building by mid-afternoon and ten the evening light show! Where we live north of Fort Collins and nestled up against the protection of the foothills, we get few real violent thunderstorms (not to say we don’t get any!) But compared to the plains to our east, we have a relatively quiet summer. But from our porch we see the most spectacular lightning storms, with the thunderheads lighting up like alien spaceships on the horizon. No matter how far away they are, our dog Pepper is a wreck. I swear he knows if there is a storm within a hundred miles, and he pants and shakes and follows us around the house. A couple of weeks ago when a freak tornado galloped its way through our neighborhood, I’m sure he spent the time in the shower stall in our basement bathroom. Hey, he’s not so dumb after all!

I thought I’d post a painting I recently finished. It is a study for a much larger painting and is a combination of two themes I’ve been working on – cows and abstracted landscapes. Comments are welcomed! If you want to see what else is new, click on my “Just Off the Easel” Collection.

Enjoy all fifiteen hours of daylight!