Painted Turtle

More snow! Ugh. I hate slick roads and driveways and shoveling snow. Double ugh.

It looked as though the artist had been dizzy when he painted the turtle. Concentric rings of colors form the shell like the brightly colored layers of candy in a jawbreaker, the head and feet look almost real, and the background is a cloudy tan that looks like muddy water swirling down a drain. She wasn't a very knowledgeable art connoisseur but Jack had dragged her to enough of these gallery things that she knew the kind of noises to make so that she appeared to have an opinion or care about art. She didn't. As far as she could tell Winfred Dania, tonight's featured artist, should have kept his job as an accountant or a phone installer or whatever he had been because she thought his artistic career was dead in the water.

--Barbara