12 - Rhubarb Ruffles (original oil painting, 5 x 7 in, framed)31 March finds me crouched over another scene of spring vigour in the Rhubarb patch. The weather is much improved, with warm sunshine and hardly any breeze and the Mosquitoes think so too. They were coming up below the hand which held the canvas, near to the ground, and biting where I could not see them. The Starlings are boasting their skills of mimicry. I heard a Gray Tree Frog call four times, and I know it was a bird. Read more