First Cherries!
First Cherries. Oil on Linen Panel. 6 x 8. 2010.
My brother-in-law manages cherry orchards in Yakima so I have a hotline to the status of the Washington state cherry harvest. They're ripe! So today my grocery list read as follows: cherries, mousetrap, red wine.
Why a mousetrap? For years we had a cat named Chester who cleared out everything smaller than him within a 400 foot radius. Sadly, after a happy life hunting animals, spraying my walls and sleeping on the furniture, Chester died on March 5th. He was a tomcat among tomcats, bringing in hundreds of animals to play with and then kill: mice, birds (jays, starlings and sadly, one of a pair of cedar waxwings), bats, rats, possums. Everything. We have great Chester stories. But he's gone and it took no time for the mice to spread the word among whatever social media they use. Twitter?
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I've hopped over from Alyson's current Cultivate Collectors class after reading your review of artist efile sytems...grand work and savvy writing.
Oh..and :-( to Chester's passing...he sounds like a stellar boy.
good luck with the mice...yeah...they would most likely use Twitter...unless they've invented Squeaker.
cheers!
I look forward to eating pounds of those delicious washington cherries when I am there next month.
Sorry about Chester. he seems like quite a dude.
Welcome merci33! Thanks for stopping by!
Dan - very short tweets I'm sure!
kat - uh oh, I like juicy! I actually felt rusty with the direct painting.
loriann - they are delicious! If you're here at just the right time there'll be raspberries, blueberries and cherries at once!
I really like these cherries. They look good enough to eat.
Thanks for commenting on my Woodstock trees.