When I was getting ready to paint this new abstract work, a friend asked, “Can you do some of your flowers?”.  I don’t do  flowers.  I never have painted flowers and probably never will.   After thinking about it long and hard and so as not to disappoint,  I decided I would do flours instead.  This big, bright painting is filled with  colors that remind me of my favorite gardens and it is filled with hidden photos of vintage flour ads and flour sacks.  Look closely and you’ll even see a hidden image of Hank Williams singing the jingle for Mother’s Best Flour (a truly great jingle!).  Also included in this piece is a vintage ad for Schlitz beer in which a husband is holding his wife in his arms while smoke comes out of the oven.  The husband says to his wife, “Don’t worry honey, you didn’t burn the beer”.  Anyone who knows me knows I don’t do the cooking or baking in our house.  (My baking history includes having left the oven on once for three months.)