I am such a huge fan of your work, the first thing I bought on my budget were your cards, and the second time around I bought the print of your Green Heron. I framed it in a simple brown frame and it is my most favorite picture. I can’t tell you how much joy I get from it.

I put it on my favorite table with all the feathers I have collected over the years in vases on the left of it and a small bowl of Robins eggs (not real, painted) in a blue shallow bowl that complements the water in the painting.

I get up every AM with my coffee and smile at your painting, and then go out unto my porch to birdwatch before work. You know, I feel the same way. We are the caretakersof our world. The I pod may be a great invention, but look UP and look OUT and see the society of living creatures that carry on their lives with you.

My bird story for you is from this last summer we had here in CT. We may think through the media that people are awful, but in a group we can do wonders. I work at the VA in Newington CT.

In the parking lot, of all things was a PLOVER sitting on her egg. Her little ringed neck flexed as people walked up to work from the parking lot. She had chosen the gravel with a little grass and a little depression to lay her egg.

To condense this story, I was sure she would be run over by the next SUV in the lot and went running to Building Management about her.

There must have been a lot of people thinking the same thing, beacuse I ran down on my lunch break and there someone had stuck a large sign away from the nest , 3 in fact , “BIRD NEST DO NOT PARK NEAR THIS” an an entire line of cars were parked in the parking lot 50 feet away from her nest.

The whole 2 months that she sat in that nest an entire line of people going to work would walk quietly by her and she would tend her egg.

There also was a great deal of posturing on her part, she would get nervous and stand on those 2 long orange legs and hiss at us, and we would all scurry past by bad children. Then she would settle down again and tend her egg

Al of us were afraid to move her beacuse of the egg- but she gave th VA great joy during her time there

One AM she was gone and the only thing left was the eggshell, broken.

We all hope that her chick had hatched and had make it to the pond across the street to take care of her baby.

It made me so aware of what people can do when they band together. She most certainly gave us joy.

I just want you to know also, I will get those books you mentioned - they sound tremendous. I know you have a love of crows as I do - and the book on crows by Konrad Lorenz is a fasinating one, about their intelligenge and their ability to problem solve. Its an amazing world that we live in.

Thank you for your gift to the world, Itoo am a painter and I wll visit your website often. You have made one woman very happy with your art. Ruth

Thank you. I am grateful for your feedback. I am easily self-motivated by the desire to express a vision of my experience, but it certainly fuels my motivation to know that others respond positively to my work. In the zinnia paintings I tried to capture the vibrant color and eye candy that characterize zinnias amidst other visible life forms. And more than that, I tried to capture my sense of the invisible pulse of life that stimulates a response in the first place.

Amy

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