So yesterday it rained until about 2:30/3pm here in SE Nebraska. I thought it might be a lost day for painting landscape and I might have to move indoors to some of the exhibits and draw from the objects there. I decided instead to check out Cedar Creek Pottery, east of town. It turns out the rainy day forced me to do something that was AWESOME! Ervin Dixon , the potter, graciously gave me a tour of his studio and I was allowed to just lose myself in his gallery of gorgeousness. His gallery/studio is in a refurbished, moved a couple of times, old Lutheran church east of Beatrice. http://www.heritagehighway136.com/pages/central_region/arts_music/gage-cedar-creek-pottery.php#sthash.0icBcMi3.dpbs Not to be missed! Bring cash or your check book!

I figured the day also called for Mexican brownies, which I made and partly consumed......

But then I looked out my bedroom window and thought, "You know, why not just give it a try?" and started a painting (the one above). As has been my experience, that is the best way to go out here. One of the great things about this artist residency is that, for the first time since, probably, I was a kid, I can just lose myself in making. So here's a little drawing that I lost myself in on a hike the other day:

gorgeous little prairie plant of which I have not yet learned the name