The End is Near...Again

The year is winding down and it is doing so in unseasonable fashion. Whereas the last several years have seen Decembers white and cold, this year December has been more like October. No snow, little rain and days in the fifties and even sixties this weekend. El Nino is responsible for this according to those who track this kind of thing. I've been doing some work on the beach, but it is mostly moving not making so I don't have anything to show for it. November's storms washed and arranged the beach several times, so I have also spent some time collecting and salvaging. As far as painting is concerned I have done some small things to ease myself back into work and I just finished a piece but haven't photographed it yet. They are both beach pieces...one of milkweed and the other of the typical matrix of pebbles and leaves that carpet the littoral.