It's probably obvious I've had a major slow-down in producing paintings. Making paintings feeds on itself. In otherwords the more you paint the more you want to paint and the more you find time to paint. But once you brake that cycle it's hard to get that bike back on the road and head down the trail again. I had three artshow weekends in a row where I only completed one painting and now there are home repairs that must be made or I'll be fixing the porch and such while the snow flakes are falling around me. That's not appealing at all! I'll sit down at my art table this week and start another painting. I'm real tempted to branch out into something new, what I don't know. We'll see what the fall brings.