My wife and her art.

In this journal you have learned much about my wife Alexis. I feel blessed by our happy life together, and the fact that we share many interests. You know her love of dogs, interest in lichens and fungi, and her unyielding desire for warm sunny weather. She is also a talented artist. While her skill behind the camera was indispensable during the 365 urban species project, her ability with a paintbrush has only recently come to light on this journal. Early on in our marriage, we agreed that we would help one another with each of our creative endeavors. The balance of this agreement has tipped so far in my favor that it is an embarrassment to me.

Many readers of her journal, and this one, expressed interest in Alexis' paintings, reminding me again that I have done little to help promote her art. I have put together, somewhat hastily and sloppily, a small gallery of some of her paintings, to share with you. I used my camera, which has a built-in wide angle lens, which distorts the edges of the canvasses, so these images are far from perfect, but they are better than what we had before. There are more paintings that need to be added to the gallery, and I need to put up a proper website for them, with information about titles and prices for them.

Please take a look at these paintings! I hope you love them as much as I do.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v165/cottonmanifesto/paintings/

3:00 snapshot, #56.

Coolidge Corner, Brookline.