Little Cow and Willow Tree

This year I had planned to set up a table at the Descanso Fall Arts and Crafts Fair. Thursday (because I teach Fridays and Saturdays)  I loaded all my paintings into the car along with the trappings of my neophyte traveling show. I needed a painting for the raffle so I decided to put up this one, mostly because just don't like it. I learned a lot from painting it, but it just doesn't work to me at all. In fact, I have to grit my teeth to look at it.

Other people do like it, and it is absolutely a scene of Descanso, one particular very special tree in Descanso Meadow.

As it happened, I stayed at school in San Ysidro this morning longer than I thought I would to help students who needed it. That was my first obligation. Then I had to run necessary errands on the way home, so by the time I got on the road really to Descanso, I decided not even to bother with the fair or setting up my stuff. I'd only be there an hour and a half and godnew the dogs had been in the house already five hours.

But, at the last minute I turned up to the Town Hall, parked right in front, got the painting out of my trunk and took it inside. Lisa, the woman running the kitchen and watching over the raffle items took it and started to set it up, "Do you have cards, Martha, I could put out with it in case someone's interested?"

Well, since I was running on impulse, I'd left my wallet -- with my cards in it -- in the trunk. I ran out to get them, not gone three minutes. I got back to learn someone wanted to buy the painting outright without waiting for the raffle! $75 donation to the Descanso Town Hall just like that and (to me the best part) someone loved that painting with its little cow so much she didn't want to take any chances.