An Old Love

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Have you ever had a project in-process for, say, decades?

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When I fished this out of the studio closet, a few days ago, I felt the same excitement as when I began it, so many years ago. True Love!

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These geraniums were growing in an enormous pot on my patio, in Nashville, TN. Back then I was having a love affair with needlepoint and painting my own canvases. I was also working full-time, had two babies, and had just learned we were transferring to Madison, WI.

So, life intervened, and this canvas went into storage.

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I’m wondering how different the finished piece will be, made from this place in my life, than from that younger vantage point.

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