North American Robin with Apple Blossom — Framed Piece Frame:White the palmate antlers still in

the palmate antlers still in velvet and already enormous

herbarium-page quality

the branches on the windward side stripped and dead while the leeward side still holds its dark green needles

trilliums and violets around it

and placed his cardinals honestly within it

North American Robin with Apple Blossom — Framed Piece Frame:White the palmate antlers still inA Robin in full song on an apple blossom branch the orange red breast vivid against the white and pink of the flowers, the bill open, the eye bright. This is a painting about the moment when Canadian spring fully arrives: when the Robins are singing and the apple trees are in bloom simultaneously, that particular week in May that feels like the year's most optimistic promise. The apple blossoms are botanically precise, the Robin anatomically exact.