North American Robin with Apple Blossom — Framed Piece Frame:White the palmate antlers still in

the palmate antlers still in velvet and already enormous

the vertical bars of the muskie's flank vivid against the green of the water

eyes open to a world it has just discovered — sits among purple violets

This dedicated botanical study gives it the focused attention it earns as Ontario's most beloved wildflower

The iridescent green and purple of the head

North American Robin with Apple Blossom — Framed Piece Frame:White the palmate antlers still inA Robin in full song on an apple blossom branch the orange red breast vivid against the white and pink of the flowers, the bill open, the eye bright. This is a painting about the moment when Canadian spring fully arrives: when the Robins are singing and the apple trees are in bloom simultaneously, that particular week in May that feels like the year's most optimistic promise. The apple blossoms are botanically precise, the Robin anatomically exact.