Originally I was going to fill this first post with something profound.  (Seriously, the first draft had the words “something profound” as a placeholder.)  But rather than put pressure on myself to be brilliant from the start, I figured I would set the bar low.

I thought it only fitting to start out by posting the image that the flag above was cropped from.  This is one of those images that I couldn’t adjust to my liking.  I was never really happy with any of the four previous versions, but this one is so close to that which I had imagined that I don’t know if I can make it better.  This is my painting.