It's that time of the year: time to close off the two main bedrooms to conserve cool air.
In the mornings, my room gets blasted with sunshine.
In the afternoons, the guest bedroom gets the full brunt of summer sunshine.
We're entering 100 degree weather starting tomorrow. Dry, desert furnace heat. #NewMexico

Wonderful book.

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Our pollinator garden is busy these days fortunately.

Something I completed before the Rite of Spring painting.
I call it Celestial Egg....and no, I don't know what it means. I was goofing around with pigments.

The Regatta

#collage #CosoArt

Ghost (Spirit) of the Flower
#collage #CosoArt

Ferns and Family
#collage #CosoArt

Do You Believe in Faeries?
#collage #CosoArt

Finished another small batch of collages, too.

A Midsummer's Day (Sorry, Shakespeare!)

Close up of Gaia

close up of Dionysus

Close up of Persephone

Finished the first version of The Rite of Spring: Dionysus, Persephone, and Gaia.
Oil on canvas 36" x 36"
There may be two smaller explorations of the theme before I'm done.
#CosoArtist #CosoArt

I tried to contact a few galleries up in Santa Fe, but, as usual, what few replies I received were of the 'nice, but not for us' category. It's like genre fiction. They stick with 'New Mexico' art, which mine is not, unless you count some landscapes.

I might be preaching to the choir here, but...
Support old-school authors. AI is coming for us writers, too. Because of people (hacks) using AI to take short cuts in the creative process, the market is going to be super-saturated by bad AI fiction, including people like this yahoo, who basically uses AI to write rip-off after rip-off of Jane Austen.

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Isabella Rosner posted this list of Quaker Names on the bird app.
Have fun!