Trees are taking on increasing importance in my paintings this summer: here's one that I just did as a quick study for a "family tree" painting I'm doing with the names on all the tree branches (and some leaves).

Since Thursday, I've been polishing up the trees in a portrait I'm doing of a Cape Cod home in Lebanon, Ohio. Trees are also finding their ways into many of the daily paintings and drawings I'm doing lately. Becoming more and more intruigued with them since the few days I camped at Camp Glen among forests with trees that must be hundreds of years old.

Last night, I ate my first roasting ear of corn on the cob this season; superb!