There is sun! real, live sun and something that might well be grass poking through. No croci yet, but I am starting to believe they are coming at last.

Plus, Eli won the "What African American History Means to Me" contest for the 7th grade in Ohio and got a laptop (hey!!). Here he is with the other winners from Clintonville Academy and their amazing Social Studies teacher, Kim Rosenbaum.

And Gideon has some terrific new pieces to share, including a "stained glass" portait of Mowgli and a very German expressionist piece entitled 3 Faces