Raccoon Baby — Framed Piece Tote Bag with its layered ridges receding

with its layered ridges receding into the haze

the proboscis

the way the needles group and light passes through them: all of it observed and placed with care

and four small birds going about the business of surviving a Canadian winter

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Raccoon Baby — Framed Piece Tote Bag with its layered ridges recedingA young raccoon sits at a pond's edge among pickerelweed the juvenile plumage still fluffy, the mask already distinct, the animal regarding the viewer with the alert curiosity of a young mammal encountering something new. A leopard frog sits at the lower right, barely visible but precisely rendered. The pickerelweed behind the kit is botanically exact another wetland species given its due. This painting brings together two classic Ontario pond species