Surveying the kingdom

Black, white and red all over.

An old joke applied to my Lucy.

She loves surveying her kingdom from the

screened-in porch!

Of course I have to wipe off the table before we have

dinner out there!

All kinds of students!

OK, so I have to admit that the painting on the easel is

not one of Lucy's. (Hers are still drying in the back room)

But after one of my students got up from her stool, Lucy

had to give her critique and check out the palette. She

didn't say anything, just looked and then got down.

She does this all the time. I know she's going to come

back in another life and be a dazzling prodigy with no

one the wiser (except me, because I'll be on the look-

out!)