This year Dad came out to Phoenix with Mom to visit with us and his cousin.  I think Phoenix is growing on them..  Mom stayed a week longer.  I couldn’t get her back on a horse as she didn’t want to press her luck.  So instead we went kayaking.  The Hawaiian festival going on by the lake that day was a nice surprise and the blisters on our hands were well worth it.

This painting is an enlargement of a detail in a new comforter for the spare room.  I helped Mom sew matching curtains.. and by “helped” I mean “watched”..