a drive along the Ottawa River,

through fields of melting snow

a worthy opponent

Some nature-painting/ watercolour samples from an art camp I ran last summer. It does make one a little nostalgic for sunny greenery when it's -20 out and feels like -26 with the wind chill. Spring is coming, someday soon!

 

Sketching excerpts a la Toronto.

Reverend Klomps

Reverend Klomps recounting a comment after a sermon on John Calvin: " 'Oh Pastor, you've got it all wrong. John Calvin wasn't French, he was Dutch!' (And if she could have, she probably would have added '-and he came from Friesland!')"

snowy nights

fa-la-la-la-la!