The image shows various projects in progress.  The far left pencil sketch is of the red/orange flowers in the glass jar, just in front of the sketch.  This will get a first layer today.  The bottom left is the final “fuzzy edged” layer of the yellow flowers in a smaller glass jar on the right (behind the painting of the same flowers in a can).  We are having Matt, Merissa, Sarah, Archer and Nicholas over for a chicken grill this afternoon, so perhaps not much painting will take place today.  I am the griller.

Below is an interesting read from the Scotsman, which many of you readers will likely not see in the local Vermont press:

Anti-Israel Protest Is Countered by Standing Ovation – Tim Cornwell
Protesters who interrupted a concert by Israeli musicians five times Friday sparked outrage – but the audience for the recital, by the Jerusalem Quartet as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, responded with a standing ovation. Five Scottish protesters stood up, one after another, at the concert in the Queen’s Hall to disrupt the performance, denouncing “Israeli army musicians,” before being bundled out and arrested. But the audience rallied to the musicians – two of whom are members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, established to promote harmony between Israeli and Arab musicians and cultures.

Scotsman music critic Susan Nickalls called it “absolutely disgraceful…. Even if one might have sympathy with the Palestinian cause, this was not the platform. The audience had come to hear an uncontroversial program of Brahms, Smetana and Haydn, not the views of political activists.” (Scotsman-UK)