I'm a morning person. If I sleep past nine o'clock I feel I've 'lost' a whole day. Fortunately, I have a Facebook friend in Florida who is a 'real deal' morning person. He gets up before daybreak every single day of the year to be on the beach at dawn and photograph the arrival of the morning. He shoots hundreds of shots, then returns home to edit the work. Afterward he puts three to twelve of his best shots on FB before eight am. WOW! He generously asks his friends to use, or copy the ones they like or want. 

I want to show you one he recently posted.

I've build myself a tiny little studio at home. Yep, something I said I'd never do. I said oil paint and my home can never mix because oils are so messy. And I'm a messy painter! Oh, I don't mean to be; it's just that you're in the midst of painting & 'bam' there goes your brush across the room. Or I'm cleaning my brush in turps and it spills someway. Therefore I felt I couldn't bring oil paints into my home. 

Then last winter the weatherman was reporting a storm was moving in and we were going to get 6 to 10 inches of snow and I knew