Sebastian was outside learning how to drink from the garden hose and trying to understand why the water from the hose was okay to drink, while the water in his pool was not.  I started thinking about water as the source of life, and the love of simple things like a garden hose.  When I began this piece, the orientation of the page was vertical and the hose appeared on the lower right (next time I would add more hose and curve it across the top of the page).  As I was about midway through, I remembered back to the gorgeous gardens and interiors of the Greenbrier (which we visited this winter) and was going to name this work “missing west virginia’s greenbrier”.  In the end, I came up with “alis volat propriis” or “she flies with her own wings” which seemed right for this butterflies-in-motion piece – all done to continue my experimentation with transfers and what I’m learning is much like life – less is more. Obviously, I had a bit of a naming convention problem and didn’t properly plan the spacing for my letters.  Trial and error’s the best teacher, they say.  I just have to add a photo of one of the conservatories that blew me away while on the resort’s property.