Gratitude

crocus

I took this photo more than a week ago, it is time to give the yard a good raking (husband M's job) but the crocuses looked pretty peeking out. It was around the same time that I went back to my aerobics class at the gym. My wrist was about 99% better so I was able to do most of the routines. It was a good feeling getting back to the class, sometimes it is like a sufferance getting through it but this time I felt nothing but gratitude to be able to attend a step class.  Take nothing for granted, least of all good health.

Crocus

Last Wednesday the temperatures hit record highs for the season and I noticed the first signs of spring peeking out in my garden:

There was an interesting article in the newpaper yesterday about the Artists group fighting for re-sale rights.

  'In 2003, Charles Pachter painted a vibrant, poppy-red double image of a barn, as seen after the springtime thaw had turned the fields near his rural studio into sodden slicks of melted snow. It was called “Red Barn Reflected,” '  Here is that beautiful painting:

Anyway ' a CARFAC-proposed amendment to the Canadian Copyright Act that would give living artists a five per cent royalty on all sales of their work after its original sale' is under review by a government committee.