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 A mixture of snow and rain were falling last evening so it was delightful to awaken to snow.  I snapped a picture of a buck standing on the hillside out my art room window.  The 9:30am air is sparkly due to the morning sunlight refracting through the snow falling out of the trees.  The clean blue sky is filled with passing fluffy clouds, some very white, others appear darker as if gathering for a new storm.  The brilliant sunlight comes and goes with the passing clouds.  I thought about walking around and taking pictures but so much snow is falling that I’m sure I’d get pummeled by natural snow balls.  That would be fine as long as my camera didn’t get wet…..so I’ll enjoy the view from my cozy art room window.

I can hear our newest household members cheeping downstairs.  Last Sunday we purchased 2 barred rock chicks.  They were 4 days old so today they are the ripe old age of 8 days old.  They’ll join our 3 1/2 year old barred rock hen when they are old enough not to be pecked to death by her.  We named the chicks Sally and Louise, in honor of 2 dedicated art enthusiasts who took the Mariposa artists under their wings and helped the art community any way they could.  Sally, sadly passed away and Louise moved out of the state.  Sally had pet chickens and could tell wonderful chicken stories.  They are very missed in the Mariposa art community.  Picture below.

‘Where’s the art?’ you ask.  I’ve been procrastinating….cleaning house, playing with the chicks, blogging, checking the emails, trying to figure out why the kitchen sink is leaking, keeping the woodstove going to stay warm……OKAY, I know, they are excuses.  I’ll get busy.

Sally and Louise.  Louise is in front.  We’ll call her Weasie since Louise sounds too much like Ruby and I want them to come running when I call their names….Ruby, our other chicken does, just like a dog.  Photograph by David L. Hoffman