Stormy Day

“And here the sunflower of the spring
Burns bright in morning’s beam.”
– Ebenezer Elliott (“The Corn Law Rhymer”)

Sunflower – Mixed Media – 8 x 10 inches

It rained all day and very hard at times. At one point the rain came down so hard our dog started barking.

I managed to get some painting done in the afternoon and made some significant progress on a painting I have been working on for awhile. I will try to  post it later.

Afterwards I cleaned up and I had some free time to relax and enjoy a good strong cup of hot tea.

“The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain.  This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you’d just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency.”  – Susan Allen Toth, England For All Seasons