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Once again my inspiration comes from Hollee's  Farm during the Annual Spring Student Sleepover near Brenham. As already reported, the Bluebonnets were magnificent and we all did many oil sketches of wildflowers during our visit, but the 2nd day my eyes couldn't resist the opulence of Hollee's Garden. In the corner of the yard surrounded by roses, irises, and daisies, is a very old and twisted pear tree which Hollee assures us can not make it another year. Surely it needs to be immortalized before it goes, don't you think? So, I did one more plein air painting of this gnarled and twisted tree, which after some thought became the subject for the larger painting below. I wonder if Fairies live in that tree...