Crows Dec 5

 Crows December 5

Oil on Wood

6"X6"

Crows like to hang out at the top of my neighbor's birch trees in the morning. Today the sky turned dark, and a shower blew by followed by a bright rainbow stretching in an arch across the whole sky.

Then came an earthquake out to sea followed by a tsunami warning that sent everyone into a tizzy. We became experts on weather, watching Daniel Swain explain it all on his YouTube channel,

"Weather and Climate Office Hours by Weather West."

Once the weather event was over, I spent the afternoon in the studio with Jon Batiste's 
"Beethoven Blues" followed by Beethoven piano concertos and now Sonatas 1 and 2 for cello and piano.

Finding solace in the unexpected served up by Nature and the beauty of human creative endeavor.

I will end the day reading a chapter of Margaret Renkl's, "The Comfort of Crows: A backyard Year."

Full circle.