Omand Family Portrait 
 Thanksgiving 2018 at 7 New Road. I'm in the  front row between sister Anne on right, Elizabeth, left, Brothers from left to right, Richard, Kerry, Steven. And yes, he's giving Anne bunny ears. My oldest brother, Robert, died 40 years ago. He was  born third, after Elizabeth.

last few pages.....

 windows






paper snowflake

 Haiku on back of a tag from joggles.com The cheer leading cat is from a card from my sister...

both inserts in their pockets. These pages need a bit more color..

So excited about the AIR for spring - my art has increased significance.More dedicated to some work every day.

 sorry that the outline of an oak leaf in lower right doesn't show...
HAIKU: Golden oak leaves glow
            on black branches, on forest floor
                  crunching burnished gold




      The left page is based on a prompt I rediscovered when looking through an Art Journal from 2017... half image, half text.
the yellow tape was on my table...

planning an Artist in Residence at Newmarket Elementary  for spring

constructions with cylinders at EKES... final exhibit for 2016-17

Newman....waiting, looking,

Re connecting.....
here's Newman almost 16 months old

and the "machines"constructed with paper gears by all the students at EKES.....