Today's Blog Post is a copy of my 4th of July email newsletter........

Hi Everyone!

I hope your summer is going super well!! I have a couple new paintings to show you but mostly want to share two minutes of my thoughts about celebrating Independence Day.

To start, here is  a new painting of mangroves I saw on a little island off the SW FL coast (A huge thanks to my friends Alan Erickson and Angie Chestnut for taking me there in their boat. She's a great photographer www.gladespix.com)

"Ten Thousand Island Mangroves" Oil 24" x 54"



What's Your Pursuit of Happiness?
Paragraph two of The Declaration of Independence begins,

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are ...