As we head into June...

...I am looking forward to a productive summer...

I turn the big 4-0 in July (hooooray!) , I am going to Maine in August, and I just got bitten by the printmaking bug and I am going to be a printmaking fool all summer! I am inspired by the beauty of Spring in Connecticut's Quiet Corner, so I have decided to do some landscape prints. How could I not? Everything is blooming!

Thanks to my dear friend Maggie Kendis for being so generous with her time and showing me the finer points of cutting linoleum for prints. (AND--She told me we can do more studio days any time... She's so motivating, and her studio is HUGE! YAY!)

UCRingmaster just went to my framer, Claudette, for a custom frame job complete with a brass plaque. Thanks to Kim and Claudette for helping me pick out the appropriate "masculine" mat colors for this mighty stallion's portrait. (No, Helen, don't use dusty lilac or rose pink!)

And congrats to the University of Connecticut's Women's Polo team on their THIRD National Championship. Way to go!