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Here in Georgia, we have been overly blessed with rain this year -- 15 inches more than normal.  For a while there, we were neck and neck with Seattle for the most cloudy and rainy days.  We got used to coming and going in the rain -- it had to really pour before the umbrellas came out.  Grass went uncut for days at a time, waiting on a dry spell (make that drier spell) so the mowers could quickly make their rounds.  Now that the rain has started to ebb away, the weather has been cool and humidity has been low.  Definitely NOT Hotlanta weather! But fall is in the air now -- we've made it past the threat of oppressive heat.

With the cooler weather, thoughts of colorful leaves and deep blue skies aren't far away.  Fall art shows are on the horizon, and there is a new urgency to create for the season.  Frankly, I welcome the challenge.  It's my favorite time of year, and far from feeling the year slipping by, I revel in feeling my strength and creativity surge.

In the next day or so, a large order of brushes will arrive -- many of my old reliables are past all hope of use, and I feel like a child with that first schoolday box of crayons.  I cannot wait to get some paint on these newbies!  The canvas is cut and ready, the paints are sorted and prepared.  When I have been out of the studio, my mind has not -- mentally I prepare compositions and paper pads fill with sketches of new scenes and ideas.  The excitement and anticipation build. 

Like the rain of the summer filled lakes to the brim, I find my mind filled to brim with ideas, with thoughts that will lead to that almost spiritual experience of creating ART.  It has been too long, old friend.  Where shall we begin?