The end is near. The round hay bales have all been moved to the edge of their respective fields. I have only one more painting in the assembly line. Yesterday in Manchester, VT, I saw a fellow on an open tractor mowing a field. Because of the heat and sun, he was holding an umbrella with one hand and driving the tractor with the other. When I went by the field a second time later, he had quit mowing before he was finished. The fellows who moved the hay bales have enclosed, air-conditioned tractors, so moving the bales on the same extremely hot day must have been a piece of cake for them. They had no incentive to wait. Too bad for the painter who withstood the heat under an umbrella to paint the hay bales. I'll never get to Monet's number of twenty-five paintings. 9x12 oil on panel.
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