New painting

We have been busy with walks, medical appointments and watering my sister's garden for the past two weeks. I also managed to swallow part of a tooth which has resulted in a dental appointment for the construction of two crowns! There goes the money that we have saved on gas for the car and dining out during covid restrictions!

Meanwhile I am still working on the large mystery painting 

but took a short break to finish a new smaller one.

It reminds me of fresh lemonade at Tre Porto in Chora on Amorgos.

The flavor was so sweet and tangy that it lingered for hours.

An interesting week

It has been an interesting week. Last Thursday John took a new antibiotic for a bladder infection. By Saturday morning he couldn't move because of extreme back pain so I was forced to call for an ambulance. I watched them, in total hazmat gear, wheel him away. It was difficult to read his expression behind the face mask. As we only have one phone...he had to ask someone at the hospital to contact me with an update.

Eight hours later, after three calls to the hospital, I finally received a call to say that he was ready to be picked up. The final diagnosis was mild spinal stenosis...not dramatic enough to have caused such pain. Much to his chagrin he was released with a walker!

After a couple of days with decreasing pain he had a telephone consult with his doctor and discussed the possibility of the antibiotic causing the back pain. Apparently it happens in rare cases! We all know from experience that John is often the example of a "rare case"!

A small piece of a new painting