March 31st and my retirement from 30 years of an IT systems engineering and development career are approaching fast. I will finally be able to dedicate substantial daily time to working on my painting in my studio. I am now 70 and yet very excited about returning to the palette and easel to continue my journey to let the artist in me out.

Thanks for visiting and please stay tuned as I share the next chapter in my journey.

Due to heavy loads at my workplace where I am Developer and Systems Engineer for a large prosecutor's office in Texas, I have not been able to paint or even draw for some time now.  I also have not been able to post anything concerning my progress.

In addition, on February 4, 2013, my wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, underwent surgery and chemotherapy, and upon completion of that was diagnosed with breast cancer.  She had rotator cuff surgery in late December of 2013 and will be incapacitated for about six months.

I plan to retire from my employment at the end of March and go into fractional support of computer systems as well as software development.  Hopefully, I can resume my painting efforts as well.  When I do I will resume my blogging.