
I looked out the window one blizzardy day last March and painted this view of a wren’s house. It was in the tamarack tree in front of my studio. It’d been hanging there for years, but no wren had ever used it. Then one day this past week I noticed a bunch of “bees” going in and out. Weird! Apparently they weren’t just bees, but hornets. This is how it looks after one week’s construction:

How big will it get? Possibly big as a basketball. As long as they don’t bother me, I’ll leave them alone. Maybe I’ll do another painting?