"Wind Blinders"

While I've been present here at MiCA 12v on this quiet, drizzly day I've kind of been playing hooky - as in, not working on the paperwork that is piling up.  I've been missing the drawing and painting I used to do so all morning I've been working on something...a little drawing that will probably end up in an encaustic piece.  Still working on it. But I'll tell you the inspiration - an old friend told me in an email that when he was a boy he saw the trees making the wind.  He said he still believes that the trees "create it all" and we just can't see it, because we have "wind blinders" on.  I loved the idea of Wind Blinders.  And it brought back memories of being little and being wide open to learning about the world without any bias, where witnessing the trees starting the wind was possible.  It brought back being a kid in the summer. soaking up the cool through the back of my tshirt from the grass. looking straight up at the softly blowing leaves as they flipped back and forth in rhythm to the breeze and thinking anything could happen. There are a couple of illustrators I can immediately think of that capture that for me. Anke Weckmann is one.  And Carrie Gifford, who started Red Cap Cards.  We sell Red Cap cards at both MiCA stores.