January Full Moon

In January
it's so nice
while slipping
on the sliding ice

to sip hot chicken soup with rice.
Sipping once
Sipping twice

sipping chicken soup with rice.

                      Maurice Sendak

No ice, not even rain, but plenty of soup: cream of broccoli, chickpea and kale, sweet and sour cabbage. Last summer we had no summer, now we have winter without winter. Hard to say what season it is—not warm, not gloomy, just cool, gorgeous, clear weather, chilly at night. Growing anxiety about no rain—such a contrast to last year. Started to water a bit, but soon may have to get serious about it.

I enjoyed the holiday socializing , now enjoying January solitude.  A slow time, working solidly in the studio.  Photographed the last series on mulberry paper—somehow surprised at how well they all came out.  Have three different composition “themes” going--focusing on one for awhile, then returning to another.