PINE CITY, Here I COME!

I spent the last weekend in Pine City at my friend's family cabin with a pack of my art-car-girl friends and it was WONDERFUL!  Aside from the smoke from the small kitchen oven (oven-mitts in there once, I think spilled-something burning the next time) which entirely filled the small space plus the wood stove's smoke, and the fact that I couldn't breathe until one of the women lent me her inhaler, it was stupendously productive for me, with 15 small paintings completed!  Three are commissions (one I can't post for a bit) and two others are of our accompanying dogs, and the other ten are all of the area around the cabin!

And here's the crazy thing, the thing I like the best, because somehow these things happen when you really don't try, and things magically come together and it really isn't a big deal but it is pretty cool, and here it is; I am having a SHOW at the Pine Center for the Arts in February!  I knew this before I knew where the girls' weekend was going to be!  And when I found out this wonderful symmetry, it just cracked me up!  And I was there with the perfect group of people with whom to chat and paint around a big table while they played Boggle and Frackle and other odd games!  I couldn't believe I got so much done- I can't wait to see them UP!  And it is so great to know they will be hanging in the area they were PAINTED!  Ain't that cheesy great?!
And I have been having a difficult time getting my painting going since X-mas...
whew!
So there it is!  I'll post a couple here~  and put the rest on my Facebook album!