It seems as if winter is never going away this year. It has snowed for the past two days with an accumulation of 14 inches. I went through some photos I took this past summer and found one of my neighbor's peonies, pink, full and beautiful! Gave me a thrill to ward off the cold and snow and paint them as the snow fell and the wind blew the trees outside. I labored over the petals on these peonies, not wanting to get too perfect in my execution, wanting a loose rendition. I don't often get there, and I might alter the stems a bit, but right now, with five feet of snow outside, those peonies are looking pretty good to me......
